Students

The Government has rejected a petition about the retrospective hike in the cost of loans for more than two million students, despite it receiving more than 128,000 signatures – but it may still end up being debated in Parliament.  

MPs are likely to debate the Government's retrospective hike in the cost of loans for more than two million students after a petition quoting MoneySavingExpert on the subject collected more than 100,000 signatures.

Cash-strapped students returning home for the summer holidays can claim back up to £36 from the cost of their TV licence – as long as they took the licence out at the start of their annual studies.

University students across the UK need to get a shift on if they want to guarantee getting their loans in time for the start of the September 2016 term.

Students and graduates can expect to pay more interest on their student loans from September compared with the previous year, as inflation increases.

Embattled student loans administrator Erudio has failed to provide deferment application forms to thousands of graduates on time, which may leave them wrongly having to make repayments from next month if not resolved.

Millions of graduates will soon have to repay much more of their loans than they were initially told after the Government secretly backtracked on a promise – a move MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has branded "a disgrace".

Millions of g raduates will pay less interest on their student loans from September, while more people with a pre-1998 mortgage-style loan will qualify to defer theirs from then too.

MoneySavingExpert.com creator Martin Lewis gives his instant reaction on the announcements made in today's Summer Budget.