CDA wants to renegotiate the loan system | inside

Party members do not accept that students will incur more debt and want the party leader, Buma, to change course. At the party congress, a proposal to renegotiate higher interest rates on student debt was passed.

The government decided to no longer tie interest on student debt to the five-year bond rate of government bonds, but at higher rates with a ten-year delay

The CDJA believes that this is going to contrary to what was said during the introduction of the loan system, namely that interest rates would remain low. "The Cabinet now wants to significantly increase this interest in the deal, despite the fact that thousands of young people drop out every year, fearing high debts and monthly payments, which I find difficult to explain." declared the president of the CDJA, Lotte Schipper

. The average monthly student debt costs of former students can increase by 18% as a result of the government's action.

pinch. "If I have to renegotiate, the coalition partners want to know where I am getting 225 million euros." It costs the removal of higher interest rates. "The party leader believes that the proposal of the Ministry of Youth is therefore unfeasible.