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Almost 1.8 million people in at least Â50,000 of UK student debt, data obtained by BBC News .
More than 61,000 have balances of above Â100,000 and another 50 people each owe upwards of Â200,000 .
In 2023/24 , some 2.8million people in England made a student loan repayment.
27-year-old posted a video on social media "celebrating" her balance passing Â100,000.
But she is unhappy about how long she will be paying it off for.
She characterises her debt as a tax and says she is not comfortable with people being in debt and not getting a job.
NUS vice president says means testing of maintenance loans often leads to people from working class backgrounds ending up in most debt.
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