{"id":4261,"date":"2017-07-31T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2017-07-31T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:34:43","slug":"nsfas-2018-applications-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2017\/07\/31\/nsfas-2018-applications-open\/","title":{"rendered":"NSFAS 2018 applications open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applications for financial aid from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) will open on August 1.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>NSFAS and the\u00a0National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) will tomorrow provide more details on the 2018 application process\u00a0as well as\u00a0the application centres made available through the NYDA.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, students are urged to prepare all their supporting documents for their\u00a0applications.\u00a0The required supporting documents are:<\/p>\n<p>1. Certified copy of the applicant&#8217;s ID or birth certificate.<br \/>\n2. Certified copy of applicant&#8217;s parent&#8217;s or guardian&#8217;s ID as well as ID copies of the household members.<br \/>\n3. Certified copy of the pay advice or letter of employment which reflects the household income.<\/p>\n<p>May of this year saw an estimated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/2017\/05\/nsfas-students-must-sign-agreements-forfeit-funding\/\">63 558 students<\/a> who received funding for 2017\u00a0not having signed their loan agreement forms\u00a0yet. \u00a0There has also been numerous <a href=\"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/2017\/02\/nsfas-delays-disrupt-registration-wsu-ukzn\/\">delays<\/a> and problems with accessing funds for\u00a0meal vouchers and accommodation leaving students desperate and stranded, while other students have been caught selling their <a href=\"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/2017\/04\/nsfas-take-action-students-committing-fraud\/\">allowance\u00a0vouchers for cash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SNG will report on the additional details when they become available tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications for financial aid from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) will open on August 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":1048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[225,69,21,59,199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}