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Student loan overpayments of nearly £19m go unclaimed

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The government is sitting on more than £18 million in student loan over-payments which have been unclaimed by nearly 60,000 graduates, it has emerged today.  Just under 60,000 former students in England overpaid on their student loans since 2015-16 and are owed refunds, averaging more than £300 per person, according to Student Loans Company (SLC) data. … Read more

The wackiest items Unclaimed Baggage in Alabama has come across in its 50-year history

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What does a unicycle, a camera from Nasa’s space shuttle and a shrunken head all have in common? Bizarrely, they are all items lost by airline passengers that, because they remained unclaimed, were sent by carriers to be resold by the Unclaimed Baggage Center – a 40,000-square-foot store in Scottsboro, Alabama, that houses millions of … Read more