Summary: A student's life will be happier if they take care to arrange their finances with particular consideration of interest charges.

Student loans - a lonely debt. Page 2

Author: Richard Norfolk

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You then contact the student loans company and arrange for the necessary funds to be paid into your account ready for the start of the new student year. These are unsecured and will be provided at an interest rate which ties in with inflation, and will not be repayable until the end of the tax year after you graduate.

At this point the repayment threshold comes into operation, so that no repayment will be required until your earnings reach the specified level. Even then your repayments will not (under present legislation) exceed the actual amount borrowed, and will be set at a value that is suitable for your ( medical insurance ) earnings level. If you should decide that despite your educational achievements, the life of an impoverished artist (or other poorly paid artisan) would best suit you and your earnings never reach the threshold figure, then, if you reach the age of 65 without starving to death, your debt will be written off!

So much for student loans - what else is available to you? Credit cards are an obvious source of credit (otherwise they would be called by a different name) but they really should be avoided if possible. With no special terms for students in most cases, the interest rates are high and the amount of ( cheap mortgages ) credit available to students is low. A lot of money can easily be spent paying interest charges whilst having a maximum debit balance, which makes you pay out regularly but allows you to spend nothing.

A bank loan is another possibility but this too is dangerous ground. The possibility of an interest free student overdraft of £2000 is very attractive, but go just over the limit and the rules will be applied rigorously. This means you are likely to be hit by a very high interest rate PLUS charges ( mortgages ) for an unauthorised overdraft. The whole of any overdraft will have to be paid off as soon as you leave university, otherwise the entire sum will attract interest charges.

You are going to have to exist without real income for quite some time. Arrange ( car insurance cover ) your finances to the best of your ability for the avoidance of interest charges and your lifestyle for the avoidance of unnecessary expenditure. It will seem like a long drag but well worth the effort in the long run.

Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up your repayments on a mortgage or any debt secured on it. Loans may be secured on your home or other property. Think carefully before securing other debts against your home.