The average student debt of $26,494 will see an increase of $1,245 Three million students with a HECS-HELP debt will be slugged an increase on what they owe on Saturday. Students will have a 4.7 per cent indexation increase applied to their HECS debt and other higher education loans. Almost three million university students will have their student loan repayment, …
In short : Student debts will be lowered for more than three million Australians under reforms designed to stop HECS loans growing faster than wages. Loan indexation will now match whichever is lower out of the Consumer Price Index or the Wage Price Index — which the government says will prevent another shock increase like last year's 7.1 per cent …
Amy Jolliffe's desperation at her ballooning HECS-HELP debt of $64,000, more than twice the average of $26,494, is emblematic of the growing helplessness felt by many graduates years after they've left university. Many now feel they're in a "student debt spiral" and it shows why calls for change have grown so loud that the prime minister all but confirmed there …
Students and graduates could see their student loans increase by thousands of dollars, after a Senate inquiry rejected a proposal to freeze indexation on the debts. Key points: Around 3 million Australians have a HECS-HELP debt Some students and graduates could see their overall debt increase due to indexation A Senate inquiry into pausing student debt found the proposal could …
A senate inquiry report into a bill that would freeze $74 billion in student debt is set to be tabled in federal parliament next week. Key points: The Greens are also pushing for a rise in the minimum repayment threshold Two thirds of submissions received by the senate were from students struggling to repay debt The government says there are …
