Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by Royal London to the Student Loans Company (SLC) has revealed a huge spike in the number of borrowers burdened with student loan debt in excess of £100,000, which jumped by a third to more than 150,000 in the first six months of the year. The FOI revealed…
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Higher interest rates increase the expected government cost of financing the student loan system in England by more than £10 billion per year, new analysis by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) shows. The IFS says that in recent years, the government’s borrowing costs have always been lower than the interest rates it…
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New IFS research has found that a blanket minimum eligibility requirement (MER) for access to student loans would be a highly imperfect way of improving student outcomes. It would increase the already large socio-economic gaps in higher education and would disproportionally affect ethnic minority students. The government recently announced a consultation on changes to the…
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The largest student loan reform since 2012 will reduce the cost of loans for high-earning borrowers but increase it for lower earners with graduates face paying extra £28,000 towards their loan over their lifetime according to new analysis by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) Starting with the 2023 university entry cohort, graduates will pay…
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