Summary
How are student finances being affected by coronavirus? Louise Cooper is joined by Tom Allingham from Save The Student and Hayley Borrett from The National Association of Student Money Advisers. They'll hear from students with concerns about paying fees, meeting rent obligations, making student loan payments and much more.
Email moneybox@bbc.co.uk with questions and experiences or tweet @Moneybox
Producer: Ben Carter Researcher: Kafui Okpattah Editor: Emma Rippon
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| 0:00.0 | In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers. |
| 0:08.0 | But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA |
| 0:12.0 | was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife. |
| 0:18.0 | Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? |
| 0:21.4 | When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe? |
| 0:25.1 | I wouldn't even know where to start. |
| 0:26.7 | And I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello, today we're talking about the ins and outs of student finance. |
| 0:41.2 | We'll be finding out what the rules are around student loans and how to avoid falling foul of them. |
| 0:47.3 | Whatever your question, you can call us now on 0-3-700-100-44-geographic charges from landlines and mobiles apply you can also email us we're at |
| 0:58.0 | moneybox at bbc.com.uk or you can tweet at moneybox let's go straight to alison now alison what's your |
| 1:06.2 | question hi yeah i've got two children, one 12 and 114. |
| 1:12.6 | And we've been saving in child trust funds for them since they were babies. |
| 1:17.7 | And basically, my original thinking was that we would use that money to go towards their tuition fees and maintenance, |
| 1:24.8 | rather than them being faddled with lots of debt while through the student |
| 1:30.6 | loan process. But I'm not sure that's the right way forward and I just want to get some |
| 1:37.6 | advice really on what's the best thing to do for them and should I use it for maintenance really |
| 1:41.8 | while I're at university. |
| 1:45.4 | Okay, it's a good question. |
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