Treasurer Jim Chalmers says university and education loans like HECs have been “unchanged by this government.”
“One of the good things about the HECs system is it means people only begin to pay back a slither a portion of their education cost when they earn a certain amount of money,” Mr Chalmers said in a media conference on Wednesday.
“The arrangement for HECs and for university loans and education loans have been unchanged by this government.”
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