Student benefits

[curiosity]

What I can't get my head around is why do young people who don't work or go to fulltime education get income support, when students have to get loans. When if they didn't go to uni they would get some help from the government? Surely students should be entitled to write off part of their loans with an accumulation of the benefits they would have received had they not gone to Uni? They still need income support don't they? What's your view?

[THECORBYLOON]

I assume the students go to University to increase their chance of obtaining qualifications which in turn lead to better paid jobs. The loan allows them to do this so why should they not re-pay it when they are able to do so?

[curiosity]

Yes, I understand that. But I think they should still be entitled to a basic living allowance, which they don't have to pay back. Isn't the current system discrimination against students. What happens to the students with no parental support?

[THECORBYLOON]

The students CHOOSE to go to university, they are not compelled to do so and they know the rules regarding the loans The students only start repaying the loan if their income is above a certain limit, �15,000 I believe.