WHO CAN APPLY FOR THE HOME LAPTOP GRANT?

1. The Applicant must be an employee or pensioner of Royal Mail or Post Office Ltd.

2. Serving Royal Mail (RM) or Post Office Ltd plc employees (who have parental responsibility for the child) must have a minimum of 2 years continuous service with Royal Mail or Post office Ltd. Note: Temporary contracts that were made permanent can be included in the 2 yrs. Irregular casual or agency workers are not eligible.

3. The pensioner must be currently in receipt of a retirement or medical retirement pension or be a former employee whose employment was ceased on medical severance terms not more than two years prior to the date of application and who is unemployed and in receipt of Disability Living Allowance, PIP or equivalent state benefit.

4. The Applicant’s household must be in receipt of one of the following benefits: Universal Credit (including income support) or Pension Credit​; Personal Independence Payment (PIP); Disability Living Allowance (DLA)​; Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).

5. The Applicant must have parental responsibility for the child for whom the grant is sought (but does not have to be a parent with residence). The laptop is delivered to the Applicant, not the child.

6. If the Applicant is not the parent with residence, then the consent of the person with whom the child resides (or has a residence order) must be obtained before the application is made.  The financial information required will be that of the household in which the young person does live and any contribution made by the Applicant to the maintenance of the child must be shown separately under “other income” on the application form.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE THE GRANT?

7. Children in Year 7 to 11 (aged 11-16 years old) who do not have access to a home learning device.

8. The home laptop grant is made subject to the Trustees receiving verification from someone from the child’s local community (most likely a teacher) of the need for a home learning laptop for the student.

9. The type of laptop device will be agreed between the Postal Family Fund and the laptop provider. Applicants cannot influence the device type.  The device provided is non-exchangeable, non-transferable and no cash alternative is offered.

10. The household will need to have its own access to broadband as we are not able to assist with data costs.

11. The laptop is for the use of the child to do home learning and to support their school studies.  It is not expected that the laptop will be used by other members of the household for other purposes.