Submitted on Wednesday 18th March 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 1st April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Freeze Student Loans Interest in the UK
The Department of Education and the Student Loan Company should freeze all interest applied on Student Loans starting from the month of March 2020.
As we've started to face increasingly more economic uncertainty as a result of the impact that Covid-19 is having on our communities, we ask that the Student Loan Company reduces interest rates to 0% on all existing loans. This is a measure that has already been applied by the United States and one that would definitely help ease the financial burden on early graduates in the upcoming months.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/308579
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