If you're a postgraduate course student and awarded CCA, it’s paid termly in three instalments.
The payments will be based on the amounts claimed in each term.
This means you may be paid different amounts each term, depending how much you claimed each term.
If your CCA entitlement is reduced due to the income assessment, we'll reduce your term payments equally over the terms that childcare has been applied for.
This will be paid within 10 working days of the CCA assessment, if we've already received both confirmation of your course attendance and allocated bursary place from your university or college.
Any future CCA payments will be made slightly later than your main bursary payment as we must verify the previous term costs first.
This is done by asking you to fill in a Childcare Reconciliation Form. You can get a form from your MyFunding account.
Once we've received and processed your form, your next CCA term payment will be made within 10 working days.
If your estimated childcare costs in the previous term exceeded your actual costs by £500 or more, all future payments of CCA will be stopped until you've submitted a new application showing new estimated costs for remaining terms.
Provisional assessment
If your entitlement to CCA was calculated using estimated income, your award will be provisional. The third instalment will remain on hold until the income evidence we need is received and processed by us.
Your entitlement will be recalculated or finalised once you send evidence of the actual income received.
If the actual income is different to the estimated income, the amount of CCA you're entitled to may change.
If you've received a provisional bursary assessment, your Notification of Award will confirm what evidence we need to finalise your award.