Keep the student loan repayment threshold at £27,295 a year

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

Students over the past two years have been paying the same amount of money to universities for lectures online rather than actually attending a lecture, and for STEM students this also meant missing neccecary lab sessions. If the threshold lowers, we will be paying more for a lower quality education

Students who have already graduated have signed a contract with student finance agreeing on the terms of repayment, if this were any other loan changing when its paid back would not be allowed - so why is this? Additionally this will worsen the financial position of many young people, it is already a struggle to get on the housing ladder, why would we want to make that harder?

Young people who have worked hard for their education should not be punished, especially after NI has also gone up.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action: Do not reduce earnings threshold for student loan repayments!

Timeline

29 Sep 2021	Petition opened for signatures
30 Sep 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13

Status Rejected

Rejected 30 Sep 2021

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