A National Union of Students report finds 86% of parents provide financial support to university students, with many households now paying more than £200 monthly and a notable minority exceeding £1,000 per month. The NUS argues that frozen parental income thresholds for maintenance loans—unchanged since 2008—have shifted the cost burden onto families and called for an immediate re-adjustment and annual inflation indexing. Campaigners say the policy squeeze has stealthily increased parents' financial strain and undermined student independence; government plans to link maintenance loans to inflation do not, the NUS argues, correct years of real-terms erosion in support.