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Cedar  ·  3350 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New Data Gives Clearer Picture of Student Debt

I used the calculator at MoneySavingExpert, I have one loan on the old system at ~£22,000, assuming I earn £25,000 (which I do not expect to earn at all, but hey it would be nice) it estimates it will take 16 years and 6 months.

My new loan to cover this year of teacher training is ~£17,000, but because of the different rules for the new system it estimates repayment in 16 years and 4 months.

I have no idea if it tries to pay them both off at the same time or not, in the UK it's automatically deducted from income so I will have to start earning and find out! I hope it doesn't though, as that would be two 9%'s coming off of my paycheck.