What is FEE HELP?
What has happened to PELS, OLDPS and BOTPLS?
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What is FEE HELP?
FEE-HELP is a loan given to eligible fee-paying students to help pay part or all of their tuition fees.
You can borrow up to the amount of the tuition fee being charged by your provider for your unit of study. However, over your lifetime you can borrow only up to the FEE-HELP limit. This amount is indexed each year.
See also: Full fees & FEE-HELP for the current FEE-HELP limit.
A loan fee of 20% applies to FEE-HELP loans for undergraduate courses of study. The FEE-HELP limit does not include the loan fee. No loan fee applies to FEE-HELP loans for postgraduate courses, bridging courses for overseas-trained professionals, enabling courses or units of study undertaken directly with Open Universities Australia 
(formerly OLA).
You can pay tuition fees for a subject or unit which is:
- part of a course of study leading to a higher education award
- made available by a higher education provider, and accessed directly through Open Universities Australia
- part of a bridging course for overseas-trained professionals.
You may be able to pay tuition fees for a subject or unit in an enabling course.
For full details on FEE-HELP see: Full fees & FEE-HELP
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What has happened to PELS, OLDPS, and BOTPLS?
On 1 January 2005 FEE-HELP replaced the:
- Postgraduate Education Loan Scheme (PELS);
- Open Learning Deferred Payment Scheme (OLDPS); and
- Bridging for Overseas-Trained Professionals Loan Scheme (BOTPLS).
FEE-HELP has some features that differ from these previous loan schemes. For information on how the changes affect people who have received:
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