{"id":94624,"date":"2026-10-27T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/the-perils-of-repaying-your-student-loan-early-ft-shorts\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:44:05","slug":"the-perils-of-repaying-your-student-loan-early-ft-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/the-perils-of-repaying-your-student-loan-early-ft-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"The perils of repaying your student loan early | FT #shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you take the gamble of repaying your student loan early to save on interest charges? \u2060<br \/>\n\u2060<br \/>\nFigures from the Student <!--more--> Loans Company (SLC) show loan overpayments have jumped in recent years as graduates try to free themselves of the burden of their growing debt. The decision at the last Budget to freeze thresholds is the latest retrospective change to loan terms that have led MPs to describe the system as &#8216;broken and unfair&#8217;, explains the FT\u2019s Claer Barrett.\u2060 <\/p>\n<p>Follow this link for more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/49eca17a-3b4e-46e0-8691-417f679cc6b0?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/49eca17a-3b4e-46e0-8691-417f679cc6b0?syn-25a6b1a6=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#shorts #shortsvideo #shortfeed #shortsviral #shortsyoutube #shortsvideos<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Enjoying FT content? Get a daily slice of the very best FT journalism with FT Edit. Free for 30 days then just \u00a34.99 a month<\/p>\n<p>See if you get the FT for free as a student (<a href=\"http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree<\/a>) or start a \u00a31 trial: <a href=\"https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Check out our Community tab for more stories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>@FinancialTimes\/community<br \/>\n\u25ba  Listen to our podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@financialtimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you take the gamble of repaying your student loan early to save on interest charges? \u2060 \u2060 Figures from the Student<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}