MSE News: PM pledges to raise student loan repayment threshold

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Prime Minister Theresa May has said the student loan repayment threshold will be increased from £21,000 to £25,000 as part of a wide-ranging review of student finance...
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'Victory for graduates as PM pledges to raise student loan repayment threshold'

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Sorry, but I have no sympathy with this at all.
The cost of higher education is a worry for some, we know that, however if the tuition fees hadn't been risen by 300% in the first place we wouldn't be seeing that issue now.
I do agree with the policy, however I don't agree with it as surely a much more practical approach for most would be to bring the tuition fees down so it doesn't look so much like a scary number to start with.
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I can spell, my iPad can't.
There will be a group for whom the increase means they are saddled with far more interest and will pay that interest. The group that would have cleared the loan in full but now will have a chunk of extra interest added to their total.
The changes also give an indication that the pre-2012 group will have their threshold unchanged in the future. Sure they have a much lower total loan (around 20k for those who had tuition fees around 3k, rather than ~40k for those on 9k) but on lower incomes their threshold remaining at 15k for the foreseeable future means they will feel the pinch. I'm reading the message as this group are not as important as the more recent and future students.
The 23% are free to overpay by the difference so they will only be out of pocket if they choose to be.
The pre 2012 loan threshold is already increasing at the rate of average earnings and currently stands at £17,775.
People who go to university for the parties etc, with no intention of ever getting a graduate level job when they graduate?
Won't make any difference to them.
Can this be removed from the article? Most current graduates wont benefit unless govt pulls something for pre-2012 loans out of the bag.
The pre-2012 threshold increases with RPI, not earnings.