GovWire

You might be able to have your student loan cancelled if you get one of the following disability-related benefits in the UK:

• Personal Independence Payments
• Disability Living Allowance
• Industrial Injuries Benefit
• Severe Disablement Allowance

Evidence youll need to send

Youll need to write to the Student Loans Company (SLC) to ask for your loan to be cancelled. Youll also need to include your Customer Reference Number and photocopies of both of the following letters from:

• a doctor, consultant or psychiatrist which says youre permanently unfit for work, dated within the last 6 months
• the benefits agency which shows you get a disability-related benefit, which must be the most recent letter of assessment and include all pages

If you cannot make the request

Sometimes you may not be well enough to tell us that youre permanently unfit to work yourself. SLC can accept information and evidence from a third party instead, but, we can only communicate directly with the third party if they have Power of Attorney (POA). If theres no POA well write to a third party care of the customers address.

Contact SLC