Students

The average Welsh student could potentially pocket £7,000/year in maintenance grants from September 2018 under plans by the devolved government - with students from higher-income families each receiving a grant of at least £1,000/year.

If you're a graduate paying off your student loan, you may be due a refund – new figures show 100,000s have been overpaying on their loans.

Parents of students going to university are facing a large hidden hike in the amount they are expected to contribute to support their child's living costs, with some now asked to pay over £5,300 a year, MoneySavingExpert.com analysis reveals.

If you had a NatWest or RBS student current account between November 2002 and March this year and you haven't already been contacted about receiving a refund for wrongly charged interest, you can expect a letter detailing how much you're being refunded by 1 November.

The Government has announced that English and Welsh universities will be able to raise maximum tuition fees to £9,250 a year from August 2017 – and the increase could hit those already studying too. But as MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis explains below, in practical terms most won't pay more.

MPs have debated the retrospective hike in student loan payments, following a call from MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis for people to get their MP to show their opposition to the changes.

A petition signed by more than 130,000 people calling for the end of retrospective changes to the student loans agreement has triggered a parliamentary debate.

The Government's U-turn on a promise to increase the threshold of student loan repayments was debated in the House of Commons yesterday, with MPs expected to decide today whether a petition on the subject will trigger a further debate.

The Government has rejected a petition about the retrospective hike in the cost of loans for more than two million students, despite it receiving more than 128,000 signatures – but it may still end up being debated in Parliament.  

MPs are likely to debate the Government's retrospective hike in the cost of loans for more than two million students after a petition quoting MoneySavingExpert on the subject collected more than 100,000 signatures.