Submitted on Monday 27th April 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 28th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Scrap student finance loan repayments for NHS healthcare workers
The support for the NHS workers during this difficult time has been amazing however, whilst people are being furloughed, NHS staff are still having to go to work as normal and then paying back hundreds of pounds each month in student loan repayments. This includes nurses, doctors, paramedics etc.
Having that extra bit of money each month can really help; it costs a nurse/paramedic/midwife etc approximately £50,000 worth of student debts to become a healthcare professional. To then spend the rest of their career caring for others, whilst still paying as much as hundreds back each month. As a thank you to our frontline NHS workers, scrap student finance loans!
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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.
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You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action:
Reimburse nurses for student loans and fund all fees for future student nurses: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302732
Write off all student loans for all NHS staff fighting COVID19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310559
Forgive student debt of all key workers after Pandemic crisis: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307985
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