Financial help for full time students living alone during Covid 19. · petition

What the petition asks

I would like the government to help students who live alone and are not entitled to any benefits. I want to government to give those students help in the form of housing benefit and/or other benefits that would help keep the homes in which they live safe.

As many students are not entitled to any benefits, the only option is to work and students do just that, Since we are going through the epidemic we now have no jobs and no income which means our homes will most likely be took away from us as we just don’t have the funds available to pay our rents. We cannot claim benefits as we are full time students. Although the government have done a fantastic job in setting out plans that help our society, unfortunately students seem to have been forgotten.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Allow full time students to claim universal credit during the Covid-19 pandemic

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

Timeline

23 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
28 Apr 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee