Functional Skills Payments

No, we can have the money up until the last date of teaching before they found their certs (this isn't clearly written down anywhere to my knowledge but has been confirmed numerous times). Just flag them as withdrawn on the last date of learning.

Depends.

If their initial assessment results suggested they required some additional teaching in order to meet the necessary level then I'd argue you're within your right to keep the funds up to the point the exemption presented itself. If the results suggested otherwise (e.g., the requirement is Level 2 and their IA said they were already working at Level 2), then you couldn't reasonably argue you deserve to keep the funding because it wasn't really warranted in the first place.

Sorry, yes, with the caveats Ben mentions, you can keep the money.

We seem to enjoy doing that Steve Hewitt