Claim: Writing off current student loans would cost £100 billion.
Fact-check: £100 billion: the cost of writing off student debt? - Full Fact
Verdict: this is roughly the value of current student loans in the uk, including maintenance loans. but the true 'additional' cost of a policy to write off current student loans, compared to the amount the government already 'writes off' from unpaid loans, would be lower than this.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2017-07-12T00:00:00