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HECS / HELP Outstanding Debt and Repayments (Annual)

Name: HECS / HELP Outstanding Debt and Repayments (Annual)
Creator: Australian Taxation Office
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

ATO Higher Education Loan Program statistics - annual snapshot of total incurred HECS/HELP debt, indexation, compulsory + voluntary repayments, and write-offs from 2005-06 to 2024-25. Universally relatable: every Australian uni graduate has interacted with this system. Headline 2

Source: Australian Taxation Office · Licensed CC-BY 3.0 AU · dataset id ato.HELP_DEBT

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curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/ato/HELP_DEBT

Returns JSON with the original Australian Taxation Office attribution on every response. Add ?format=csv for CSV, ?start=YYYY-MM to return rows from a period forward, or ?limit=1000 to fetch more than the default page.

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