Teacher eligibility

AClark2

Hello all

I qualified as a science teacher through TeachFirst in 2011.  I have taught in state school (physics & biology) since, although took 4 years break after 2013 for maternity.  I have just seen that my student loan interest has, without notification, shot up to 5%.  At 41 I still have 7k left to pay, which equates to about £230 a month.

This got me thinking, all the new entrants seem to get huge cash incentives to train and before my ITT there were golden handshakes or schemes that paid off student loans.  However, I have never recieved anything of the sort.  Is there anything I may be eligible for. . . .before I get a 0% credit card to stick the loan on?  

Many thanks

Sarahspangles

I don’t think this is the right board for your question?

grumiofoundation

Probably better to maybe post on employment board, although I’m not really sure what your question is - you won’t be able to get a cash payment based on incentives that exist now if that is what you are asking? 

As teach first you presumably got paid during your unqualified year so even if you were going to claim you should get some find of incentive (you won’t) you would need to pay back the salary you received as well as paying (whether in cash or via student loan) tuition fees.

One question would be though - when will your student loan be written off?