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MPs launch investigation into student loans system
The Treasury select committee is investigating loan interest rates, frozen repayment thresholds, and graduate tax burdens amid widespread dissatisfaction, with borrowers owing over £50,000 on average.
- Recently the cross-party Treasury select committee launched a parliamentary inquiry into student loan repayments and graduate tax burdens, with Dame Meg Hillier saying it questions if goalposts moved unfairly.
- Plan 2 borrowers repay 9% of earnings above 28,470, rising to 29,385 in April, with thresholds varying by year and postgraduate loans adding 6%.
- Workers with undergraduate loans earning over £50,000 face an effective marginal tax rate of 51%, and students now leave university with more than £50,000 in debt.
- The committee is calling for evidence and will accept online submissions from anyone over 16 until Tuesday April 14, while MPs question witnesses on interest and regulator duties.
- MPs argue the inquiry could revisit the higher education funding balance, with Martin Lewis stating 'This is deliberate fiscal drag, the stealthy way governments are increasing the tax-take'.
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All the questions ministers must now answer over student loans
Ministers face a probe into whether or not they should cut the cost of student loans after a growing outcry over graduates being saddled with large repayments which will never clear their debt. The Commons Treasury Committee is opening a new investigation to determine if the current system of university finance is fair for young people. Its chair, Labour MP Dame Meg Hillier, said she feared that the “goalposts” for graduates may have “been moved…
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