Student Loan Scheme Act 2011

Interest, relief, penalties and offences, rights of objection, and rights to challenge - Interest - Late payment interest

141: Late payment interest reduced if instalment arrangement complied with

You could also call this:

"You can pay less extra money on late student loan payments if you follow a payment plan"

If you have to pay extra money because you're late paying your student loan, you might be able to pay less extra money if you make a plan to pay it off in smaller amounts over time. This is called an instalment arrangement.

If you agree to an instalment arrangement and follow it properly each month, you'll pay less extra money. Instead of paying the usual extra amount, which is the base interest rate plus 4%, you'll only have to pay the base interest rate plus 2%.

But remember, this only applies for the days in a month when you're following your instalment arrangement. If you stop following the plan, you'll have to pay the higher amount of extra money again.

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Part 4Interest, relief, penalties and offences, rights of objection, and rights to challenge
Interest: Late payment interest

141Late payment interest reduced if instalment arrangement complied with

  1. This section applies if—

  2. a borrower is liable to pay late payment interest on an unpaid amount under section 139; and
    1. the borrower has entered into an instalment arrangement in relation to the unpaid amount in accordance with section 154.
      1. For each month that the borrower meets his or her obligations under the instalment arrangement, any late payment interest that the borrower is liable to pay on the unpaid amount for that month must be calculated as if, in the definition of late payment interest rate in section 139(3), the reference to base interest rate plus 4% were a reference to base interest rate plus 2%.

      2. However, subsection (2) applies only to the days in a month during which an instalment arrangement applies.

      Notes
      • Section 141: replaced, on (applying for 2013–14 and later tax years), by section 59 of the Student Loan Scheme Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 10).