{"id":35272,"date":"2016-11-22T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T02:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/student-loans-fight-over-disgraceful-freeze-on-income-threshold\/"},"modified":"2016-11-22T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T02:19:07","slug":"student-loans-fight-over-disgraceful-freeze-on-income-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/student-loans-fight-over-disgraceful-freeze-on-income-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"Student loans: fight over 'disgraceful' freeze on income threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPlea for action after government stopped repayment cut-off rising in line with average income \u2013 \u2018no commercial lender would get away with this\u2019Calls have been made for the Treasury to unpick a controversial change to student loans from George Osborne\u2019s final autumn statement, which critics including MoneySavingExpert\u2019s Martin Lewis have called a mis-selling of loans to thousands of young people.Lewis has led the charge to oppose the changes made in 2015: a five-year freeze on the \u00a321,000 income threshold at which borrowings must be paid back, despite a pledge when the scheme was launched that the \u00a321,000 figure would be raised each year in line with average earnings. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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