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    From Scott@newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk to uk.tech.broadcast on Tue Jul 7 09:49:29 2026
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    I was listening to R4 this morning - a piece about student loans. One
    comment that struck me was that a lot of the students were 17 at the
    time they took out the loan. I thought you had to be 18 to enter into
    a loan agreement. Is there any scope for a challenge to the loan
    agreement?
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  • From Tweed@usenet.tweed@gmail.com to uk.tech.broadcast on Tue Jul 7 09:07:34 2026
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    Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
    I was listening to R4 this morning - a piece about student loans. One
    comment that struck me was that a lot of the students were 17 at the
    time they took out the loan. I thought you had to be 18 to enter into
    a loan agreement. Is there any scope for a challenge to the loan
    agreement?


    https://www.cityam.com/government-mis-sold-student-loans-to-teenagers-mps-say/

    See the bit under the sub headline Government Exemption

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  • From Scott@newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk to uk.tech.broadcast on Tue Jul 7 10:41:53 2026
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    On Tue, 7 Jul 2026 09:07:34 -0000 (UTC), Tweed
    <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:

    Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
    I was listening to R4 this morning - a piece about student loans. One
    comment that struck me was that a lot of the students were 17 at the
    time they took out the loan. I thought you had to be 18 to enter into
    a loan agreement. Is there any scope for a challenge to the loan
    agreement?
    https://www.cityam.com/government-mis-sold-student-loans-to-teenagers-mps-say/ >See the bit under the sub headline Government Exemption

    Thank you for this authoritative response. It would be interesting to
    contrast this with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-rights-child
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  • From Max Demian@max_demian@bigfoot.com to uk.tech.broadcast on Tue Jul 7 11:06:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.tech.broadcast

    On 07/07/2026 09:49, Scott wrote:

    I was listening to R4 this morning - a piece about student loans. One
    comment that struck me was that a lot of the students were 17 at the
    time they took out the loan. I thought you had to be 18 to enter into
    a loan agreement. Is there any scope for a challenge to the loan
    agreement?

    I blame Tony Blair. <g>
    --
    Max Demian
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