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How student loan system is punishing mothers: 'Charged £20,000 just for having babies'

The Mirror UK News · 14 September 2026 at 12:21

How student loan system is punishing mothers: 'Charged £20,000 just for having babies'

EXCLUSIVE: The motherhood penalty is leaving graduate women with spiralling student loan interest - all because they went on maternity leave.

Campaigners are calling for the 'broken' system to be scrapped

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How student loan system is punishing mothers: 'Charged £20,000 just for having babies'

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