Verifying Income: Students

If you are a student and in receipt of funding to assist you with living costs, we can accept these as your income. The following details are for bursaries, grants and scholarships. If you are in receipt of a maintenance loan, please click here. 

• If you are employed during your education please ensure you enter these details separately by also selecting employed in income sources.
  Verifying Income: Employment
• For those without any income support please select No income in your RentPassport.
  What to do if you have no income

In order for our referencing team to verify your income, you will need to provide evidence of this income by uploading one of the following documents:

• Award letter
• Reference letter from the institution
• Reference letter from the sponsoring embassy

Please see the criteria for these documents below:

Award letter:

This is an official letter provided by the institute providing you with income support whilst you are studying. This can include bursaries, grants and scholarships. We do not consider any payments towards tuition fees, only the maintenance element of the payments.

What we are looking for:

• University or awarding body information. This should be on company letterhead.
• Dates:
  • This letter should be dated within the last year. If you have confirmation longer than this, please contact a support team.
  • The letter must also confirm the date you will start receiving the award and when this will end.
• This letter must clearly show that this award is for you.
• Amount of award you will receive within the date period.
• How you will receive this award, i.e Monthly payments or quarterly payments.

• The letter must also confirm what this award is supporting such as tuition or living costs.

Reference letter from the institution:

This is a letter which can be supplied to you by the institute providing you with income support whilst you are studying. This can include bursaries, grants and scholarships. We do not consider any payments towards tuition fees, only the maintenance element of the payments.

What we are looking for:

• University or awarding body information. This should be signed and on company letterhead. Must be provided by the relevant department within the university or awarding body
• Dates:
  • This letter should be dated within the last year. If you have confirmation longer than this, please contact a support team.
  • The letter must also confirm the date you will start receiving the award and when this will end.
• This letter must clearly show that this award is for you.
• Amount of award you will receive within the date period.
• How you will receive this award, i.e Monthly payments or quarterly payments.

• The letter must also confirm what this award is supporting such as tuition or living costs.

Reference letter from the sponsoring embassy:

This is a letter which can be supplied to you by your country's embassy providing you with income support whilst you are studying. This can include bursaries, grants and scholarships. We do not consider any payments towards tuition fees, only the maintenance element of the payments.

What we are looking for:

• Government/sponsoring embassy information. This should be signed and on company letterhead. Must be provided by the relevant department within the embassy.
  • Sometimes these will be stamped instead of signed. We can accept this too.
• Dates:
  • This letter should be dated within the last year. If you have confirmation longer than this, please contact a support team.
  • The letter must also confirm the date you will start receiving the award and when this will end.
• This letter must clearly show that this award is for you.
• Amount of award you will receive within the date period.
• How you will receive this award, i.e Monthly payments or quarterly payments.

• The letter must also confirm what this award is supporting such as tuition or living costs.

Please see here for assistance in completing the Income section of your RentPassport.

Please note: If your RentPassport® is not connected to an agent, sections not auto-verified will appear as self-certified. All manual reviews by our referencing team will be undertaken once you have connected to an agent for a tenancy application.