Claiming

This page contains guidance notes for claimants who are Serving Personnel.  Please ensure you read this page before submitting a claim to your Education Staff.

Before being eligible to make an ELC claim, individual scheme members must have completed not less than six years eligible service (lower tier).  If you have completed 4 years qualifying service prior to 1st April 2017, please read JSP 822.  The lower tier of funding is up to £1,000 per claim instalment and the higher tier (eight years service) is up to £2,000 per claim instalment.  Only service accumulated since 1st April 2000, may be counted as eligible service for the purpose of the ELC Scheme.  

You are entitled to make three ELC claims in total. You can only make one claim per financial year (1 April- 31 March), however if you have served between 6 and 8 years you may be eligible to aggregate all three lower tier claims together subject to meeting the qualifying criteria in JSP 822.  As the expiration date of your claims is dependent upon many factors please read JSP 822.  If you are claiming in the last year of your scheme eligibility, you must commence study before your scheme expiry date.

If you are in your qualifying resettlement phase you may be eligible to claim under the Joint Funding Initiative (PF FE/HE Scheme).  For the full details and to check the eligibility rules, please view the Serving Personnel/Claiming Publically Funded FE/HE page.