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Ministry of Social Development figures show roughly 65 percent of student allowance applications have been finalised for study beginning this year.
That reaches 80 percent for applications received by the target date in mid-December.
Otago University first year student Aroha Stapleforth applied for a student allowance in late January, and said she was given no information that it needed to be done earlier.
She has been without any income for five weeks while living by herself for the first time - fortunately her rent for her student flat is paid off in lump sums in the middle and end of the year.
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The team at OUSA Student Support dealt with 77 incidents of flatmate violence during 2020.
According to Sage Burke, the manager of OUSA Student Support, this number was “about the same” as 2019. That number was “bad to start with,” and given that a lot of students went home during the Covid lockdown, maintaining the same number as 2019 is “not great … my observation is that even though the numbers were the same, the individual situations were worse.”
At an estimate, he said that the cases that Student Support deals with are normally “70% psychological violence.” In 2020, he estimated that “at least 50% were very physical.” “We’re also having more reports of sexual violence in flats,” he said.