With Student Loan Dates, Student loans are paid in three instalments, but the exact day you’ll get them depends on your term start date.
If your course starts in September, you’ll most likely receive your payments in September, January and then April.
- Payments are generally made to students on their first official day of their course, but only if you’ve registered your attendance with the university.
- This is because the university will let Student Loans Finance (SLC) know that you’ve enrolled, and it can then release the payment on your term start date.
- If you don’t know how to enrol, contact your university for more information.
- SLC says it can take up to three days for payments to reach a student’s account though, so make sure you have money to cover initial costs, such as books, transport or your first month’s rent.
- You can view your student loans payment schedule in your online account once your application has been approved.
- If your payment dates don’t show on your account, it could be because your application hasn’t been approved yet or because SLC is still waiting for a registration confirmation.
How do you apply for a student loan?
Students can apply online for a loan through the government website.
They can apply up to nine months after the start of the academic year.
Students can set up a student finance account online, often needing to include household income, proof of identity and a loan declaration as part of their application.
You can apply for tuition fee loans and maintenance loans.
If you can’t apply online then you will need to download the application forms and send them by post.
How to view your payment dates and status
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On screen: The Student Finance England login page on gov.uk.
Once you’ve logged into your student finance account, you’ll see your ‘My Account’ page.
On screen: Your account page.
Select ‘Your finance’ where you’ll find the option to see your payments.
On screen: Your finance page gives you the options to update your bank details or view your payments.
Click on ‘Academic Year 2026/20’ under ‘view your payments’.
On screen: your payment dates.
You’ll now be able to see your scheduled payment dates and the status for both your Tuition Fee Loan and your Maintenance loan and any grants. You might see your payment status as ‘Awaiting confirmation’ or ‘Blocked’.
Hover over your payment status to find out what it means. ‘Awaiting confirmation’ means we’ll make your payment once your uni or college has confirmed you’ve registered for your course.
On screen: the mouse hovers over ‘awaiting confirmation’ under Tuition Fee Loan. The description for this status explains: “we’ll make your payment once your uni or college has confirmed you’ve registered for your course”.
‘Blocked’ means we’re checking your National Insurance number (which can take up to 10 days), your bank details are missing or we need more evidence from you.
On screen: the mouse scrolls down the page under the Maintenance Loan section. It hovers over ‘Blocked’ with the explanation that it: “Means either we’re checking your National Insurance number, your bank details are missing or we need more evidence from you. Check your to-do list for more information.’
On screen: the page scrolls back to the top of the webpage.
To find out what else you need to do, select ‘Your Profile’ then scroll down to ‘Your to-do list’.
On screen: The mouse selects ‘Your Profile’ and your account page appears.
Make sure your bank details are correct. Check you’ve done everything on your to-do list.
On screen: ‘payment’.