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When you start repaying your student loan, your monthly repayments, what to do if you have 2 jobs or are self-employed, how to get a refund if you've overpaid.
- What You Pay
You have a Postgraduate Loan and a Plan 2 loan and have an...
- Getting a Refund
£21,000 a year for Postgraduate Loan; If your annual salary...
- How to Repay
You pay at the same time as you pay your tax. If you’re an...
- View a Printable Version of The Whole Guide
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- When Your Student Loan Gets Written Off Or Cancelled
If you were paid the first loan on or after 1 September 2006...
- Student Finance If You Suspend Or Leave Your Course
If you leave or suspend your studies you must: stop your...
- What You Pay
Nov 6, 2023 · You’ve paid off your student loan in full HMRC will tell your employer to stop taking repayments from your salary when you have repaid your loan in full, but it can take around four weeks for salary deductions to stop. This means you may pay back more than you owe.
Apr 6, 2024 · You usually only have to complete one if it is needed for your taxes and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) ask you to do so (or you notify them that you have a tax reason for needing one). If you are required to complete a tax return, the form and the calculation also take into account your student loan repayments.
Unless you received an overpayment, there is no need to pay back other kinds of student finance (e.g. bursaries, grants). Another section explains repayments of student finance if you suspend or leave your course early. There are three repayment plans.
- Student Loan Repayments
- Employees
- Self-Assessment
- Nearing Full Repayment
- More Than One Student Loan
- Other Points to Note
- Cancelling Student Loans on Death
- Going Abroad
- Future Changes For Borrowers in England
Student loan repayments usually start from the April after graduating or leaving the course if the borrower is earning above the relevant repayment threshold. So, if graduating in the summer of 2022, the first time a loan repayment will be made is April 2023, assuming that earnings are above the repayment threshold for the relevant plan type and th...
Employees will have their earnings for student loans purposes calculated in the same way as they are for National Insurance contributions (NIC), as shown in Example: Freyaabove. The repayments are deducted through PAYE so it is important that the correct plan type is used by the employer – the employee should state the correct loan plan on their st...
Taxpayers filing a self-assessment tax return will have their student loan repayments calculated as part of the self-assessment process. Payments will be due on 31 January following the tax year and are not included in payments on account. There are some additional points to be aware of when completing a self-assessment tax return: 1. If the taxpay...
When coming to the end of repaying student loan(s) there can be a risk of overpaying, so the Student Loans Company recommends that borrowers in the last 23 months of expected repayments switch to paying them directly by direct debit rather than continue paying via HMRC. The Student Loans Company should contact affected borrowers, so it is important...
Some borrowers will have more than one student loan. As explained above, loan repayments usually start the April after finishing a course, so if a borrower starts earning above the relevant repayment thresholds upon completion of a second course, then they will start loan repayments for the earlier loan immediately. However, repayments for the seco...
This article touches on some of the basic points regarding how student loan repayments are calculated and collected through the tax system but below are a few additional facts that may be helpful.
The Tell Us Once process of notifying a death to various government departments such as HMRC does not include the Student Loans Company. It will have to be notified separately to cancel any outstanding student loan debts.
If going abroad for more than three months, the taxpayer must notify the Student Loans Company. Also, if the individual is working and being paid abroad then upon evidence of their salary they will probably make repayments directly to the Student Loans Company through a direct debit, so no longer via HMRC. There are different repayment thresholds f...
There have been some recent announcements affecting student loans such as a new loan plan (Plan 5) from September 2023.There are also new Higher Education short course loans available from September 2022 (treated as Plan 2 loans for repayments) and the development of the ‘lifelong loan entitlement’, which aims to allow people to study either full t...
You only have to pay back your student loan if you earn over the earnings threshold in a tax year. Yet most payrolls work on a monthly basis. So the £27,295/year threshold is seen as £524 per week or £2,274 a month.
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Apr 6, 2024 · Repaying Plan 1, Plan 2 or Plan 4 loans through the tax system. There are three ways of repaying: through your wages, under Pay As You Earn (PAYE) through HM Revenue & Customs’ self assessment system; direct to the Student Loan Company (SLC). How do you know which one (or more than one, in some cases) applies to you? Use the table below as a ...
