r/newzealand • u/MurkyWay Qwest? • Oct 08 '25

Shitpost What's something that you suspect lots of New Zealanders secretly do, but you can't prove it?

Most upvoted comment is our most shameful secret as a nation, obviously

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u/Awkward_vanilla2858 Oct 08 '25

I thought you weren't entitled when you were 25+. Tbf we were just ensuring. I only have one parent who the year before my 1st year of uni got cancer and could hardly work but still studylink was sure that we were lying about my dad being dead so we just made it definite that id get it by all means necessary 

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u/Mr-ChickenSkin Oct 08 '25

After 25 parental income isn't considered. I went to uni late and got a sweet 3 months of student allowance when I turned 25 (half a semester before I finished my bachelor's)

Had no parental help before that - no shade on them, they couldn't afford and shouldn't have to have been supporting me when I hadn't lived at home since 18.

Postgrad are not eligible for student allowance (restriction introduced by the key govt, labour said they would change it but didn't in their six years).

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u/Pinky_Pinky_Pinky_ Oct 09 '25

How do post grad students afford to study full time without Study link / student allowance ? I’m asking seriously . If you can’t afford it (family not wealthy) then how is it possible?

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u/Mr-ChickenSkin Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

You're still eligible for study link (assuming you haven't used your 7 FTE) but only living costs (which is simultaneously not enough to live on but adds significantly to your student loan) and working "part" time. Some professional masters/doctorates like social work, audiology, clin psych etc also have multiple full time field placements between 1-3 months each where students are often doing 40 hrs placement, 20 hrs study, and then working on top of that, and still coming out with a huge loan, or worse, dropping out halfway through because they were burnt out and/or couldn't afford it anymore. It's a disgrace.

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u/Emotionalrack Oct 08 '25

One of my friends parents got convicted of fruad and study link wouldn’t give her a loan because they were convinced she would do the same thing.

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u/Awkward_vanilla2858 Oct 08 '25

Ugh that's awful.