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Student loans: Why so many graduates won’t pay them back
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March 20, 2026
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7:50Now PlayingChanges to the student loans system quietly announced in the last Budget have provoked a loud and angry response.
It has woken up Westminster to what anyone who did a degree in the 2010s, along with their parents, already know: the costs are rising. That is squeezing young workers as they approach their earning prime.
Paul Kelso explains why the Plan 2' loans - which affect five million people - are so controversial and asks what can be done about them.
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