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By the Specialist Reporting Team's Evan Young and national education and parenting reporter Gabriella Marchant

Stress and mortgage difficulties as inflation sees student HECS and other HELP debts balloon

Preparing for the arrival of a baby isn't cheap and as an expecting single mum, Carrie Riseley is watching every penny.

So the 36-year-old was shocked when she noticed in June that her HECS-HELP student debt had jumped $1,400 overnight.

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