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To Chancellor Rachel Reeves

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Rachel Reeves has said the student loan system is “fair and reasonable”. But for millions of graduates, it feels like a mis-selling scandal hiding in plain sight. Interest rates have been raised retrospectively, repayment thresholds frozen, and the goalposts moved, leaving people paying more and owing more, often for decades.

People are delaying having children, giving up on buying a home, turning down promotions, or leaving public service jobs, all while being told this is “working as intended”.

This matters politically. Over 85% of graduates say that proposals to make the student loan system fairer would influence how they vote at the next election. [1] We’re calling on the government to stop gaslighting graduates and act, starting by scrapping interest on student loans and raising the repayment threshold so people can actually afford to live.

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We are calling on the government to:

🔴 Scrap interest on student loans, so balances stop growing while people are paying them back
🔴 Raise the repayment threshold, so people can cover basic living costs before repayments start

Education should open doors, not close them. Fix the student loan system before another generation is written off.

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[1] Organise Survey: Anonymous Graduate Survey: The Reality of Student Loans
https://the.organise.network/surveys/student-loan-interest-survey-2026 Sign the petition

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Education should be encouraged without debt, the government reward unemployment instead

R

I benefited from free tertiary education and would not have achieved this, if faced with enormous debt.

Lorcan

I’m paying £1000 a month for my daughters I have three more children, I can’t afford for them to go to uni and they will end up with huge debts. I have persuaded them all into apprenticeships - it’s a massive tax on the parents and the children and young people who are affected.

Jules

I am from a generation that paid no tuition fees and had variable grants to allow us to study. Had I not had this I doubt I would have trained as an Architect and contributed both through tax and NI on reasonable earnings. I would not have worked on projects which have ranged from social housing, industrial and medical research buildings, healthcare and special needs education - which I feel have had a broader societal benefit.

Colin

My Godsons are/will be affected by paying back the loans. It’s difficult enough for young people today to get on the property ladder without having massive debts to pay back. My Godsons can’t even afford to rent their own properties and it is causing stress at their family home. Both parents and offspring need their own spaces now. These young people are going to University to better themselves so that they can contribute to society at a higher level but the student debt system is crippling them. Please help them out.

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