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Why is the income threshold set at £22,000? Will this not exclude a number of people who have low skills but earn more than the threshold?

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Why is the income threshold set at £22,000? Will this not exclude a number of people who have low skills but earn more than the threshold?

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The income threshold relates to the individual income, not the household income. Thus, it is a considerably more generous, and inclusive, threshold than that which applies to most other broadly comparable funding mechanisms.