UK graduates paid back £100m in student loans while below threshold

More than 850,000 made repayments while their income was too low in 2021-22 , according to an investigation

Hundreds of thousands of UK graduates made unnecessary repayments on their student loans last year, worth more than 100m, while earning below the repayment threshold, according to an investigation.

More than 850,000 graduates made payments they should not have done in 2021-22 because their income was too low, according to data obtained through a freedom of information request to the Student Loans Company (SLC).