The Tuition Protection Service (TPS) will shortly issue invoices to education and training providers liable for paying the 2024 VSL Tuition Protection Levy (VSL levy), the HELP Tuition Protection Levy (HELP levy), and the Up-front Payments Tuition Protection Levy (Up-front levy).
The 2024 VSL, HELP and Up-front levies have been calculated as prescribed under the VET Student Loans (VSL Tuition Protection Levy) Act 2020, the Higher Education Support (HELP Tuition Protection Levy) Act 2020, and the Higher Education (Up-front Payments Tuition Protection Levy) Act 2020 respectively.
All levy amounts are in line with the relevant risk rated premium component and special tuition protection component determination and the indexed administrative fee component. Each levy is calculated using the most recent 2023 data available to the TPS.
Providers liable for paying more than one levy will receive a separate invoice for each levy. Please ensure you check the payment details for each invoice prior to paying.
Timeline for the 2024 domestic tuition protection levies
- 15 October 2024 – all providers will receive their 2024 early advice notice via email. Up-front payment providers will be asked to submit a Request for Information (RFI) in the early advice notice. The RFI requires up-front payment providers to declare their up-front payments tuition fee income in respect of domestic higher education students for the 2023 calendar year.
- 5 November 2024 – all providers will receive an estimate of their levy amount via email.
- 12 November 2024 – all providers will receive their 2024 tuition protection levy invoice/s via email.
- 12 December 2024 – all payments are due for the 2024 tuition protection levies.
To ensure you receive all communications from the TPS, please review and update your organisation’s contacts in the HELP IT System (HITS). Communications will be sent from the TPS levy system (LTPS) to contacts identified in HITS with the contact type of CEO/VC and copied to those with the contact type of Chief Financial Officer, Senior Authorised Officer, Primary Contact – VET or Primary Contact VET/HE. The HITS User Guide contains further instructions on how to add or update contacts in HITS.
If you have any questions, please contact the TPS Operations team using the online contact form.