Manage your NHS Bursary

If you already receive a bursary, we'll email you to invite you to reapply and let you know when the deadlines are.

• Invites are always sent by email with a letter attached.
• Check your junk mail regularly.

If you complete your online BOSS form and send in your supporting evidence and student coversheet within the deadline, your bursary payments will be in place for the start of the next academic year. If you miss the deadline, your payments will be delayed.

In all cases, we must receive your bursary application, including all your supporting evidence, within nine months of the start of the academic year.

Don’t create a new BOSS account.

It’s important that all continuing students use their current BOSS log in details to reapply and must not create a new BOSS account.

When we’ll invite you to reapply

Application windows Autumn 2017 (non-medical / dental continuing students)

Your bursary is paid into your bank account monthly on the third Friday of the month.

New students

You’ll receive your first bursary payment within 10 working days of us receiving confirmation that you have started your course (provided you sent us your application form and supporting information by the deadline).

Your first payment will be for two months’ worth of bursary and then the remaining payments will be paid on the third Friday of each month.

Continuing students

Provided we received your application within the deadline, your payments will not be disrupted and you'll continue to be paid on the third Friday of each month.

If there has been a change to your circumstances you must get in touch and let us know as soon as possible.  You can do this via the Change of Circumstances section on your BOSS account.

The form can be used to tell us about:

• change of name
• change of address
• change of telephone number
• change of marital status (if already cohabiting prior to marriage)
• applying for a new childcare allowance claim if you did not apply on your main application, a paper BOSS CCA form will also be needed for this
• changes to childcare provider or cost during the academic year, a childcare reconciliation form will also be needed for this . If any of the new costs claimed are within a Childcare Reconciliation period that has already ended, you must also send receipts for that period
• a change in childcare arrangements – if you’re no longer paying for childcare, you need to give written confirmation giving the date that you last used the childcare provider
• amendments / additions to your dependant children
• amendments / additions to your own income / expenses

It is important you let us know so we can reassess your bursary entitlement and let you know if there has been an overpayment or underpayment. If an overpayment occurs we will contact you to inform you how the repayment will be recovered. If you are due additional funds as a result of your changing circumstances, these will be added to your next bursary payment.

If you are withdrawing from your course either temporarily or permanently, please inform your university and then call us on 0300 330 1345 as soon as possible so we can hold any further bursary payments on your account to prevent an overpayment. If an overpayment has already been made, we will be in touch to discuss repayment options with you. If you are due any bursary payment, this will be released once we have completed a withdrawal calculation.