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New online student loan repayment service to launch in 2020
A new online student loan repayment service will launch in 2020 to give graduates more up-to-date information about their loans, largely replacing paper statements
30 December 2019
Top universities and MSE call for current student loan statement to be scrapped
MoneySavingExpert.com and the Russell Group of universities is calling on the Government to scrap the current student loan statement
13 May 2019
Student loan interest rates and repayment thresholds to rise - what you need to know
Student loan repayment thresholds will rise by hundreds of pounds next April
21 August 2018
Lords demand cut in student loan interest rates
The interest rate charged on post-2012 student loans should be reduced to 1.5%, a parliamentary committee has said
11 June 2018
Student loan interest rates to rise to 6.3% in September - but don't panic
Millions of university leavers are set to accrue more interest on their student loan from September
18 April 2018
PM launches wide-ranging review of student finance
Prime Minister Theresa May pledges to make student finance
19 February 2018
Huge spike in student loan reclaims - check if you can get £100s back
University leavers reclaimed more than £560,000 over the course of a month for student loans payments
13 February 2018
Student loan overpayments: 'I got £1,100 back in just five minutes'
A MoneySaver has reclaimed £1,100 in just five minutes after discovering she'd started repaying her student loan early
18 December 2017
100,000+ university leavers likely owed £100s as they started repaying their student loan too soon
More than 100,000 university leavers in the last three years alone began repaying their student loan earlier than needed
5 December 2017
Autumn Budget 2017: Graduates will no longer make payments on loans they have already paid back
Graduates will no longer waste money making further payments on student loans they have already paid back
22 November 2017
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Martin Lewis VIDEO: Should you pay off your Plan 1 student loan?
7 January 2020
If you started university between 1998 and 2012, or since then in Scotland and Northern Ireland, you'll have a Plan 1 student loan. While much is written about whether those with savings should overpay the current English Plan 2 student loans, there's little out there about Plan 1. I wanted to change that, so here's a video explaining how to decide... -
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