Unit 2 - Personal Finance : Student Loans Flashcards
Student loan
9% of everything earns over £27 295 is taken to pay back student loans. After 30 years, any remaining loan is wiped out.
Plan 1
9% of anything over £19 895 per year
• for English students who started their undergraduate course before 1 Sept 2012
• 6.25% interest added yearly
Plan 2
9% of anything over £27 295 per year
• if their an English of Welsh student who I started their undergraduate course on or after 1 September 2012
• 7.3% interest added yearly
How to work out how much loan is replayed a year
Take their yearly income and minus the minimum allowance from it (£19 895) and then multiply is by 9%
How to find the amount of interest added to a loan a year
Take the student loan and multiply is with the percentage of the plan the person is in