Claim: Scrapping maintenance grants will price students from low income households out of university.
Fact-check: Ashes to ashes, grants to loans: how scrapping maintenance grants will affect students - Full Fact
Verdict: while at university they'll get more money than they did under the old system, and only students who go on to be high earners will pay back more.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sam Ashworth-Hayes
Date published: 2015-08-13T00:00:00