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katherinehill.bsky.social @katherinehill.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre... Timely new research with a new term looming highlighting the gap between students' living costs and maintenance loans. @mattpadley.bsky.social @lboropr.bsky.social

English maintenance loan covers only half of students’ living costs

New research from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) at Loughborough University shows that students in England are being left with huge shortfalls in their living costs – with the maximum...

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Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

New Post: Maintenance loan in England now covers just half of students’ costs www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/08/12/m...

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Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

New Post: What today’s report on living costs means for students, universities and parents – and policymakers www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/08/12/w...

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 11/08/2025

Since 2013, private rents in Great Britain have increased by 54 per cent, but Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates have increased by just 36 per cent. Nearly half of privately renting families on Universal Credit are facing shortfalls between their rent and Local Housing Allowance.

Chart showing the proportion of families on Universal Credit with housing costs not fully covered by Local Housing Allowance: GB.
The current situation means that nearly half (48 per cent) of privately renting families on Universal Credit do not have their housing costs fully covered by LHA. Figure 3 shows that when LHA was re-pegged to the 30th percentile of local rents in April 2024, four years after being frozen, the share of families on Universal Credit with housing costs not fully covered by LHA fell from 67 per cent in March 2024 to 45 per cent in May 2024, a fall of over 325,000 households. But these numbers are growing now that LHA is frozen again, with couples without children the group most likely not to have their rent fully covered by LHA.

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CRSP, Loughborough University @crsp-uk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Together with @liverpooluni.bsky.social, @goodthingsfdn.bsky.social and Nuffield Foundation, we've developed a single Minimum Digital Living Standard (MDLS) -a benchmark on what households need to be digitally included. Find out what the MDLS for UK households is in 2025 here tinyurl.com/3aw2d2mv

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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Are there countries around the world who are doing better than the UK at supporting their residents through social security? Well... yes. @pollardtom.bsky.social on TalkTV