{"id":1447,"date":"2014-01-27T00:53:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/wealthy-students-get-grants-intended-for-poor-through-divorce-loophole\/"},"modified":"2016-01-14T08:49:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T01:49:21","slug":"wealthy-students-get-grants-intended-for-poor-through-divorce-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/wealthy-students-get-grants-intended-for-poor-through-divorce-loophole\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealthy students get grants intended for poor through divorce loophole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAbout a quarter of university students qualify for \u00a33,200 grants after ministers let divorcees avoid joint income calculationsUniversity students from wealthy backgrounds are being awarded grants and generous loans designed for Britain&#8217;s poorest families after ministers allowed high-earning divorcees to avoid joint income calculations when fees were trebled in 2012.The loophole means around 25% of university students have qualified for \u00a33,200 grants even though only a fraction of them come from poor households. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2014\/jan\/26\/wealthy-students-grants-poor-divorce\" target=\"_blank\">Wealthy students get grants intended for poor through divorce loophole<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; About a quarter of university students qualify for \u00a33,200 grants after ministers let divorcees avoid&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-nl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":82018,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/rules-eased-for-divorcees-looking-to-buy-subsidised-hdb-flats\/","url_meta":{"origin":1447,"position":0},"title":"Rules eased for divorcees looking to buy subsidised HDB flats","date":"March 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r View of HDB flats in Singapore. 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