Tens of thousands of pensioners paying student loans off

[Lilith7]

I am paying mine off. So what? I am blessed to have access to safe secure housing at a reasonable rent. Slightly more than the usual state house rent, theirs is 25% of nett income, mine is 30% of gross... but THAT allows me to live a reasonable life. Including cheap wine and frittering for fun AND repayments on my student loan.

Because I went back to school as an ancient student... My choice.

And oh, it was so worth it.

The moral of the story is, RENTS  are killing us. Not the income related interest free repayment of our student loans...

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Btw, if I die  - which is very likely - before I pay it off, the IRD writes it off. Which gives me a warm fuzzy feeling deep inside my Scottish genes. I do hope it's a National government at the time. A little Fuck You to the  bastards.

If I was American though, they'd sue my estate.

Education should be free to anyone who wants to access it. At any age. Anywhere. And it should not be compulsory, at any age. And anywhere.

My expensive MEd says so...

MY Scots genes had me checking, before embarking on that last bit of study into whether or not family would have to repay anything I hadn't managed to by the time I fell off the perch; that was a no so I could go ahead.