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Payroll technical specifications: student loans

Student loans collections specification for payroll software developers.

Updates to this page

From:
HM Revenue & Customs
Published:
1 January 2014
Last updated:
12 December 2025
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  1. The 'Collection of student loans from 6 April 2026' has been added.

  2. 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'.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  9. 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.

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

  11. First published.

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Collection of student loans from 6 April 2026

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Collection of student loans from 6 April 2025

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Collection of student loans from 6 April 2024

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Collection of student loans from 6 April 2023

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Collection of student loans from 6 April 2022

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Collection of student loans from 6 April 2021

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Technical specification on student loans for software developers working with payroll software.

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