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Students let down once again - Melissa Lama on the exclusion of some students from the cost of living payment
Image: Grant Robertson with Budget 2022. Mark Mitchell/NewstalkZB
Some students will be left disappointed that they are ineligible for the cost of living payment - which requires them to have been in taxable employment in the last financial year to be eligible. This means that PhD students on scholarship, who aren’t demonstrating, or those who live solely on the living loan are ineligible. We spoke to OUSA President Melissa Lama about the issue.
