Usually it's a fairly obvious choice not to pay off student loan before you need to, but I'm wondering whether in my case it makes sense to. Obviously no-one can know the future so I can never be certain if it's a good idea. But in my circumstances I'm curious to see what others would do.
I'm mid 30s only went to uni for 1 year so my outstanding balance is only £12.5k. I'm on around £45k a year.
Selling my house and will have around £150k. Planning on putting some of this into premium bonds and ISA until I'm ready to buy again but living with my partner in their house for probably at least a year and will either buy another property on my own or we will buy together. I can afford. I will only need around £115k for house deposit in order to get to 60% ltv for the kind of house I want.
So I could in theory pay off the full £12.5k and then I won't lose around £120 out of my salary each month, about half of this is just covering the interest anyway. I'm able to save around £1k a month living with my partner anyway and the interest rates even capped at 6% I think currently beat savings rates.
So in these circumstances would you pay the student loan off in full?