What Is a Student Maintenance Loan and How Does It Work? | The College Investor Podcast

For those of you in the U.S., you’ve probably never heard of a student maintenance loan — or at least you probably don’t know anyone who has gotten one. That’s because they are not a U.S. student loan product. Maintenance loans are issued by the U.K. government for students attending a university in the U.K.

So how is a maintenance loan different from a tuition loan?