Life Events & Student Loans
Explore how major life events like pregnancy, redundancy, caring responsibilities or long‑term illness interact with your UK student loan repayments, write‑off rules and protections.
Family Planning
These guides cover pregnancy, childcare and building a family while keeping your student loan repayments predictable and affordable.
Pregnancy Loan Planning
Plan for how maternity or paternity leave, statutory pay and reduced hours will change your student loan deductions.
Childcare Costs vs Loans
Compare nursery costs, take‑home pay and loan repayments to decide whether full‑time, part‑time or delaying work makes most sense.
Single Parent Loan Strategy
Learn how to budget student loan repayments on a single income while balancing benefits, childcare and essential bills.
Adoption Leave Loans
Understand how adoption leave pay is taxed, when student loan still applies, and how to smooth cashflow across the leave period.
IVF Treatment Loan Balance
Prioritise IVF or fertility treatment costs alongside loans, savings and other debts without derailing your long‑term plans.
Career Transitions
Career changes, breaks and redundancy can drastically alter your income and therefore how much you repay each month.
Redundancy Loan Management
See how redundancy payments are treated for student loans and how to protect your finances while you look for new work.
Career Break or Sabbatical
Find out what happens to interest and repayments when you take time away from paid work for travel, caring or study.
Back to Education Second Loan
Understand how taking a Masters or PhD with a second loan changes your overall repayments and write‑off prospects.
Career Change Salary Drop
Model how moving to a lower‑paid or more flexible role affects your deductions, take‑home pay and likelihood of write‑off.
Early Retirement Planning
Explore how stopping work early interacts with your loan’s write‑off date and how many years of repayments you might avoid.
Health & Disability
Health shocks, disability and caring responsibilities often reduce earnings; these guides show how the loan system adapts and what support exists.
Long-Term Sick Leave Loans
Learn how Statutory Sick Pay and employer schemes change your repayments and when deductions can drop to zero.
Disability Loan Cancellation
Check when severe, permanent disability can lead to cancellation of your student loan and what evidence is required.
Mental Health Financial Break
Get step‑by‑step help for handling repayments, bills and creditors during a mental health crisis or period off work.
Caring Responsibilities Loans
See how cutting hours to care, claiming Carer’s Allowance and using benefits affects your student loan thresholds and payments.