In fact, it has been suggested that they will not be able to apply for unemployment benefit during the long vacation.
It will mean that all students who are unable to get work during the long vacation will be entitled to the supplementary allowance.
If one multiplies that number by three— not by four, because of the long vacation —one gets a total of 45,000 cases for the year.
This subject is larger than the long vacation, but clearly we are concerned with the long vacation.
Many students are legally obliged to maintain property throughout the long vacation.
I thought of the way in which those who are unable to get work during the long vacation may lose up to £760 income support.
I should point out also that local education authorities can make severe hardship awards to undergraduates in the long vacation.
They are not, of course, idle through the whole of the long vacation.