Apply for travel assistance

Support with travel from home to school, college or apprenticeship

If you are aged 16 to 25 and have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), please visit the 0-25 SEND Local Offer website for travel support information. 

Eligibility

If you are 16 to 18 years old on 1 September, without an EHCP, you can apply for 16-19 bursary funding via your school or college for help with travel. 

Schools/colleges are responsible for managing bursaries and you should contact your school or college first to make an application.

If you live in Hackney, live three miles or more from school/college, you may qualify for travel support from Hackney Education if you:

• attend a full-time course (12 hours or more a week) in Hackney
• attend a full-time course (12 hours or more a week) outside Hackney because your course is not available in Hackney
• attend a full-time course (12 hours or more a week) outside Hackney because of educational, curricular, religious, or social reasons
• have special educational needs or disability, but do not have an EHCP
• are undertaking an employed or non-employed programme led apprenticeship or traineeship in Hackney

To qualify either you, or if you still live at home, your parents/carers must be claiming one of the following:

• Income support
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guarantee element of Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
• Working Tax Credit run-on - paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
• Universal Credit (provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £15,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods)

Apply for travel assistance

This application form will be available shortly. If you'd like to make an enquiry please contact pupilbenefits@hackney.gov.uk.

Other support with travel costs

For information relating to discounts and concessions you can go to the Transport for London (TfL) website and National Rail.

Student finance for Higher Education

If you are a higher education student living in Hackney, any application for student finance will be entirely dealt with by Student Finance, England.