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83. Iron Fisted Lucy

The Happy Saver Podcast - Personal Finance in New Zealand

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The Importance of Student Loans

Because they were married they got the couple student allowance provided by the government which was relatively okay to live on. With no other access to money but a strong desire to study they both took out student loans to cover their fees. Lucy said she was just so grateful that she could access it because she knew she would never have had this opportunity in South Africa or England where education was out of their price range. Now all up between polytech university and some study from home they each did five years at the end of which still in the early 20s they moved back to their hometown and began working full-time. They started out working each earning about thirty two thousand dollars which is a new graduate salary

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