Communications Director @savethestudent. All views my own.
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Tom Allingham retweeted
⚠️ BREAKING: Student Loan interest rates will rise in September.
March's RPI (the figure used each year) has just come in at 4.1%, up from 3.2% in 2025.
Full list of changes, including how Plan 2's 6% cap will have a limited impact ⬇️
Tom Allingham retweeted
We've seen this in a few places, but it's INCORRECT. ❌
The interest rate THRESHOLDS have been frozen as a natural knock-on of freezing the repayment threshold.
The interest RATE hasn't been frozen, and hasn't been 7.9% since July 2024.
cc @Telegraph
Tom Allingham retweeted
🚀 We've launched our first EVER bursary!
💷 We're giving away 6x £750 to students starting university in Autumn 2025, to help buy essentials like a laptop, bedding, specialist equipment and more.
🏠 Open to those with a household income of £40k/year or less.
Full details 👇
ALT "Save the Student Bursary 2025" written over a purple background, with the Save the Student and JS Group logos in the bottom left corner
Tom Allingham retweeted
🚨 NEW 🚨
Today we publish the results of our National Student Accommodation Survey 2025.
University students are facing rent increases, longer commutes, substandard conditions and, in some cases, homelessness.
savethestudent.org/money/sur…
Tom Allingham retweeted
🚨 NEW 🚨
Today sees the release of our National Student Money Survey 2024, providing valuable insights into the financial challenges faced by those at university.
Key insights... 🧵⤵️
Tom Allingham retweeted
We're delighted to be shortlisted! 🎊
Given the challenges students face, 2023's National Student Money Survey was possibly the most important ever.
And if you're a journalist, we'd hugely appreciate you taking a second to vote for us. 👇
headlinemoneyawards.co.uk/hl…
#HMAwards24
Congratulations to the #HMAwards24 Thought Leadership Media Campaign of the Year shortlist!
@ajbell, @AXAUK, @Experian_UK, @QuilterCheviot, @SaveTheStudent, @skiptonbs & @TSB 👏
Tom Allingham retweeted
🚨 NEWS 🚨
🏠 Today sees the publication of our National Student Accommodation Survey 2024.
📄 The report reveals how, despite inflation falling, the intense financial challenges that students have faced in recent years have not eased. Instead, they are becoming entrenched.
Tom Allingham retweeted
🗨️ Our response to today's announcement on student Maintenance Loans in England 👇
Tom Allingham retweeted
Thanks for highlighting the shortfall in student Maintenance Loans. This is something we've been campaigning for ever since the 2.8% increase was announced.
We're calling on the government to increase loans to catch up with inflation next year.👇
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Tom Allingham retweeted
🗨️ "Without intervention, the maintenance loan will continue to fall drastically short of living costs and students will suffer the consequences."
Our piece in @HEPI_news today, calling for the government to increase loans to catch up with inflation 👇
Tom Allingham retweeted
‼️📢 IMPORTANT ACTION NEEDED TO HELP STUDENTS 📢‼️
We've relaunched our campaign for the government to increase Student Loans to catch up with inflation, and we need your help to make it happen. 🎓💜
SIGN and SHARE our petition.✍️
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Tom Allingham retweeted
The gall to tweet this. Let's take these claims one by one.
🧵 THREAD
The Govt is working hard to support students by:
✅increasing the @officestudents grant to £276m to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
✅increasing the maintenance loans by 2.8%.
✅established energy rebates for students in private settings.
Tom Allingham retweeted
Lots of talk today about Keir Starmer ditching Labour's pledge to abolish tuition fees. We oppose this u-turn.
⚠ But don't forget the biggest issue affecting students *right now*: Maintenance Loans have not kept up with inflation, and now trail living costs by £439 EVERY MONTH.
Tom Allingham retweeted
Pleased to see this petition from @SaveTheStudent, campaigning for a key recommendation from our @APPGStudents inquiry into the cost of living for students.
Read our report here👇
appg-students.org.uk/wp-cont…
🚨 PETITION: INCREASE MAINTENANCE LOANS🚨
We're calling on the gov to close the £1,500 loan shortfall, caused by years of inflation forecast errors.
Failing to do so will bake these errors into the system and intensify students' struggles.
MORE INFO 👇
savethestudent.org/news/incr…
Tom Allingham retweeted
🚨 PETITION: INCREASE MAINTENANCE LOANS🚨
We're calling on the gov to close the £1,500 loan shortfall, caused by years of inflation forecast errors.
Failing to do so will bake these errors into the system and intensify students' struggles.
MORE INFO 👇
savethestudent.org/news/incr…
Tom Allingham retweeted
Big thanks to @marykfoy and other MPs for highlighting this issue, including our research on the shocking shortfall between the loan & living costs.
We'd encourage everyone to join us in calling on the government to amend the 2023/24 Maintenance Loan rates and avoid catastrophe.
Today, with 38 colleagues, I wrote to @GillianKeegan about derisory 2.8% rise to Student Maintenance Loan. This'll have disastrous consequences on low & middle income families with talented young people priced out of uni.
If you're a student & your MP didn't sign - ask them why.
ALT Mary's letter to the SoS for Education outlining how low and middle income families will be unfairly affected by the miserly uprating of the Student Maintenance Loan.
ALT Singatories are: Debbie Abrahams MP Tahir Ali MP Apsana Begum MP Hilary Benn MP Clive Betts MP Olivia Blake MP Baroness Christine Blower Nick Brown MP Richard Burgon MP Ian Byrne MP Dan Carden MP Jeremy Corbyn MP Marsha De Cordova MP Peter Dowd MP Emma Hardy MP Kim Johnson MP Ian Lavery MP Emma Lewell-Buck MP Clive Lewis MP Baroness Ruth Lister Rebecca Long-Bailey MP Steve McCabe MP Andy McDonald MP John McDonnell MP Ian Mearns MP Grahame Morris MP Charlotte Nichols MP Kate Osamor MP Kate Osborne MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP Cat Smith MP Zarah Sultana MP Karl Turner MP Valerie Vaz MP Claudia Webbe MP Mick Whitley MP Nadia Whittome MP
Tom Allingham retweeted
And there we have it.
@halfon4harlowMP @educationgovuk have announced that Maintenance Loans will rise by just 2.8% next year, despite inflation being around 10%.
This follows 2022/23, where loans increased by just 2.3%, with inflation again approx 10%.
Here's our comment 👇
As @RussellGroup highlighted yesterday, unless the government updates its measures of inflation to reflect reality, students will lose out on as much as £1,500 a year.
And that's ON TOP of the existing shortfall.
xitter.cf/guardian/status/161246…
Tom Allingham retweeted
But as things stand, that seems unlikely.
So, we're once again calling on @halfon4harlowMP and @educationgovuk to do the right thing and help close the devastating shortfall between Maintenance Loans and living costs.