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Credit Contracts Act and Student Loans

20/8/2018

 
The purpose of laws like the Credit Contracts Act 1981 and the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003, is to protect people when they are taking out a loan, by ensuring that the borrower has sufficient information about the debt and their rights (including interest rates), and by providing protection to the borrower if they get into financial difficulties before the debt is paid off.

Student loans are excluded from the protections offered by credit legislation. Student loans are often taken out by our most vulnerable young people and few of them really understand the massive implications of that debt. Shouldn't they have the same protection as other kinds of borrowers?

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