after reading through the many comments, it appears to me, the issue is, many people are not willing to pay up more because it's only 1% interest....and many defaulted and got away with it....
automatic deduction is a standard feature of many student loans systems, including the australian hecs-help programme (yes, they need to pay about a third of fees, and can borrow most of that)....
the australian system is, automatic deduction at salary source starts after a certain salary level, arranged through the ato (lhdn)....and EVERYBODY registers with ato, because, if you don't have a tax number, your employer MUST BY LAW deduct 50% of your salary to remit to ato....
nobody escapes...everybody registers, even if you are doing part time waiting....!! nobody wants 50% of their wages removed...
many here are unhappy now because although they owe money, because of low payments/defaults with impunity, many over commits on other "investments" and now they cannot default anymore....
nobody makes financial commitment based on "not needing to pay taxes/epf/socso" right?....so why are people making commitments based on 'not needing to pay ptptn'?
if the gov implements the australian system from the beginning, this issue would not have arisen at all....but the previous bn gov failed to manage the ptptn system wisely.....one wonders if they actually already decided to run it as a 'scholarship' system, quite willing to write off the loans....that is because i believe the ptptn system is a SCAM to pass public funds to private hands (private education)....the unis owners pocket the money and students get saddled with the baby....
The issue here is ptptn offered 1% interest and 20yr repayment to entice students to take up the loan and many did took the loans at the agreed conditions. Whether they default the loan or not is another problem. But ptptn made this offer and if it were a different offer, many wouldnt have taken the loan or many would have planned their finances according to the newly discussed repayment format. But for ph to now revamp the format suddenly is disrupting alot of the financial planning the borrowers had in place. Definitely a bad and poor move. They should implement this new scheme to fresh loans only.