Guidance

Payroll technical specifications: student loans

Student loans collections specification for payroll software developers.

Published 1 January 2014
Last updated 5 February 2024 + show all updates
  1. Collection of student loans from 6 April 2024 has been added.

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

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

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

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

  6. 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.

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

  8. First published.