Student Support Number: Field
Definition
This field holds the Student Support Number assigned by the Student Loans Company (SLC). It is the student identifier that is used in student finance communications between providers and the SLC.
Reason Required
Required by the OfS to enable robust linking between ILR data and the student finance data held by SLC.
Schema Definitions
- XML Entity Name
- SSN
- Field Length
- 13
- Data type
- RestrictedString
- Minimum occurrences
- 0
- Maximum occurrences
- 1
- Part of
- LearningDeliveryHE
Collection Requirements
- Collected for all aims
Valid Entries
The SSN is 13 characters long. The first four characters are alpha. The next 8 characters are numeric. The last character is alpha, which is a check character. For example Student Support Number = WADM46891352A
Notes
SSN should be returned where any kind of funds from the SLC are being received by the student e.g maintenance loans, PG loans etc.
Where a SSN number is assigned to a student, this should be returned throughout their engagement, regardless of whether the student received any support during the year of engagement. We would only expect this value to change under exceptional circumstances, such as when a new SSN has been assigned to a student if they have changed domicile, in which case you would return the latest number.