My parents could never afford to help me out financially, but I was stuck in the middle bracket where the government assumed they would subsidise my studies, so I didn’t receive anything but the bare minimum loans from my LEA, and nothing from my parents while I was at Uni. When they downsized late last year they lent me money to clear some of my bank debt (accumulated while at Uni, but not the student loan itself) so I wasn’t incurring ridiculous interest. But I’m paying them back – estimates suggest it will take me 6 years.
Do I feel their generation owes my generation something? Perhaps. But that’s not my parents fault, so I do feel bad accepting money from them. My Mum is ill and my Dad is the sole earner. Some recognition of the imbalance between generations would be nice from the government, but that’s clearly not going to come anytime soon.
My parents could never afford to help me out financially, but I was stuck in the middle bracket where the government assumed they would subsidise my studies, so I didn’t receive anything but the bare minimum loans from my LEA, and nothing from my parents while I was at Uni. When they downsized late last year they lent me money to clear some of my bank debt (accumulated while at Uni, but not the student loan itself) so I wasn’t incurring ridiculous interest. But I’m paying them back – estimates suggest it will take me 6 years.Do I feel their generation owes my generation something? Perhaps. But that’s not my parents fault, so I do feel bad accepting money from them. My Mum is ill and my Dad is the sole earner. Some recognition of the imbalance between generations would be nice from the government, but that’s clearly not going to come anytime soon.
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