Closed petition Remove interest payments from student loans whilst they are studying.

Closed on 6 November 2019

Student loan fees are problematic themselves, the interest incurred from them is an even stronger issue totalling up to "the UK Retail Price Index (RPI) plus 3%." This is a large percentage when you consider students have no possible way of paying back loans whilst they study.

The issue of student loan write-offs has plagued the government and a recent Office for National Statistics' decision to include them in the government deficit shows how problematic they have become. Whilst it is not a final way of dealing with the issue removing the interest whilst studying can help to decrease these write-offs. In Norway, for example, student loans do not incur interest whilst studying which helps students ensure they do not have to worry about extreme repayments.