So, my student loan was meant to be paid in a few days ago. It’s actually paid in two batches per term: about £1400 of loan, and £333 of grant (more in the summer term, since it needs to last longer). When I checked my account, though, only the £333 had been paid.
Turns out that, because the loan was more than I’d expected, it took me over the £3000/year limit of the account I’d gien them the details of. Cue endless faffing around trying to get them to make the payment again, random error messages from their website, and so on.
Not that it wasn’t my own fault, of course. I’d meant to give them my new account details before Christmas, but couldn’t find the form and couldn’t face trying to do it online.