The National Student Financial Aid Scheme has reminded students that some circumstances can lead to them being rejected for funding even if they fall under the household income threshold.
NSFAS provides bursaries to poor and working-class students who choose to study at a public university or TVET college. The Scheme received more than 900 000 funding applications for the 2022 academic year.
If your application for funding was rejected by NSFAS, you have 30 days to submit an appeal upon receiving your rejection status. However not all rejected applicants should appeal their rejection status.
Here’s Who Should Not Appeal Rejection Status
- Students who are registered for a qualification that NSFAS does not fund.
- The detail of the appeal indicates that the student is disclosing different parental or legal guardian information than disclosed in the application.
- if the student is now indication that they are independent which is different to the application.
- They have reached N+2 (or N+3 in the case of a student living with a disability).
- The student is a gap year student who NSFAS previously declined to provide financial aid due to not meeting the academic eligibility criteria.
- The institution has not submitted their registration record or submitted an incorrect registration record to NSFAS (such queries must be directed to the institution).
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