Millions of Australians with student loans will have hundreds of dollars wiped from their HECS debts as the federal government rolls out its plans for cost-of-living relief in the upcoming budget.
  • gumnut
    24·
    8 months ago

    The policy will be backdated to June 1 2023

    Excellent!

    • veroxiiOP
      11·
      8 months ago

      Yeah that’s pretty good especially for people who made extra payments that year.

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    8 months ago

    I got a fairly sizable hecs debt that took me quite a while to work off. I’m glad folks are getting a bit of help, it really sounds like it should have worked like this since they introduced indexation to hecs to be honest.

    • NathA
      2·
      8 months ago

      Being clear: nobody is getting their debt “wiped out”. This isn’t a debt forgiveness that you missed out on by already having paid your loan off. The HECS indexation last year resulted in unfair loan interest of 7.1% being applied to debts for 2023. HECS was never intended to do that to people. The “wipe out” is an adjustment of this interest only for last year.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    33·
    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    “This will wipe out what happened last year and make sure it never happens again,” he said.

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    • BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

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