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Covid leaves students with a bitter financial legacy

Those at university have struggled in lockdown and their money problems are likely to persist beyond graduation day

In March last year, Kerys Henry was taking a break from her studies on a stint abroad in Denmark.

The English literature student at the university of Manchester had saved money from three part-time jobs alongside her studies, and thought she was in a relatively secure financial position.

Then the pandemic began, and travel restrictions trapped Henry in Copenhagen. Her father, who works as a bathroom fitter for elderly people, lost work. When she eventually returned to Manchester, her finances drained, the lifeguarding and fundraising jobs that had kept her afloat had evaporated.

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