When you sign your Request for FEE-HELP assistance or your Request for FEE-HELP assistance Open Universities Australia form, you are:
- confirming that you have read this booklet and the form and are aware of your obligations under FEE-HELP;
- requesting the Australian Government to lend you the amount of the tuition fee outstanding on the census date for each unit of study covered by the form and to use this amount to pay the outstanding amount of your tuition fee to your provider (or Open Universities Australia) on your behalf; and
- agreeing to begin repaying the loan to the Australian Government, through the taxation system, when your repayment income for an income year1 is above the minimum repayment threshold for compulsory repayment.
1 Income year refers to the financial year, not the calendar year.