Guidance

Payroll technical specifications: student loans

Student loans collections specification for payroll software developers.

Updates to this page

Published 1 January 2014
Last updated 21 November 2024 show all updates
  1. Annual threshold and recovery rate values for 2017 to 2018 and 2018 to 2019 have been removed from the 'collection of student loans from 6 April 2025'.

  2. Collection of student loans from 6 April 2025 has been added.

  3. Collection of student loans from 6 April 2024 has been added.

  4. The annual thresholds for 2023 to 2024 have been added.

  5. Corrected the formula in section 3 of the information on the collection of student loans from 6 April 2022 due to an error.

  6. New information for collecting Student Loans from 2022 to 2023 added

  7. Collection of student loans from 6 April 2021 has been added.

  8. Added 'Collection of student loan from 6 April 2019' with information on how to calculate student loan deductions following the introduction of the postgraduate loan.

  9. Technical specification on student loans from 6 April 2016 versions 1.0 and 2.0 have been added to the page.

  10. First published.

Sign up for emails or print this page