Petition updateHave a HECS debt? You're getting ripped off!Sliver of hope?
Tanya McCullochAustralia
2 Jun 2023

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has left the door open for changes to how HECS-HELP debts are paid back, including how indexation is applied to the original debt.

"If you've got a debt of $20,000, you pay off about $2,000 over the course of the next 11 months, then the ATO index is based on the original $20,000 not the $18,000 — that strikes me as not right," he said.

But it hasn't changed, yet. Let's keep building this petition and make an impact!

Read the full article by Chantelle Al-Khouri on the ABC news website 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-02/labor-open-to-changing-how-indexation-applied-to-hecs-help-debt/102428294

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