Quote Originally Posted by Centurion1 View Post
a government student loan is giving purely for financial reasons and is not merit based like a scholarship which has requirements but no pay back.
Actually a lot of disability pensions are based on criteria ie do they merit it. That would make the student loan, just a loan not welfare, but the scholarship a kind of welfare... which is what it is because they were supposed to be there to allow good students in who cannot otherwise afford it.