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The ticking clock has set off a planning flurry as advisers help clients minimize the hit from ending deferrals that started as far back as 2018.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Co-author Maxime Perrott, now a researcher at the Education Policy Unit, said more up-to-date research, external showed the application process for deferrals was made harder due to a "postcode lottery".

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

The Dodgers open 2026 with a record $381 million payroll, while having over $1 billion in deferrals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

If that is the case, he argued, stronger defaults — higher starting deferrals, automatic escalation or more aggressive communication — might achieve similar results without layering on an additional 40 basis points annually.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026

Talk went around of students, somewhere else in the country, getting deferrals because they’d shown they were in love—and now, just sometimes, the talk was of students with no connections to Hailsham.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro



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