Add upper interest threshold freeze for Plan 2 (Budget 2025)#1426
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Budget 2025 freezes both interest rate thresholds for Plan 2 student loans from 2027-2030. This adds the frozen upper threshold values (£52,885) for 2027-09-01 through 2029-09-01. Per OBR EFO November 2025, section 3.22: "The Government has announced a freeze to the repayments and interest rate thresholds for Plan 2 student loan repayments for three years starting from 2027-28." Fixes #1425 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Budget 2025 freezes both interest rate thresholds for Plan 2 student loans from 2027-2030. This adds the frozen upper threshold values (£52,885) for 2027-09-01 through 2029-09-01.
Background
Per GOV.UK announcement:
Per OBR EFO November 2025, section 3.22:
The lower threshold was already frozen in the repayment threshold parameters. This PR completes the freeze by adding the upper interest threshold frozen values.
Fixes #1425
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