Except you can just barely live on student benefit. Either you take debt or work, so I don't think the two can be compared. For me I was bumping on the limits

Except you can just barely live on student benefit. Either you take debt or work, so I don't think the two can be compared. For me I was bumping on the limits while on receiving student benefit, so it made no sense for me to work any more hours than I did. Had I worked any more, the pay would have been effectively zero, which is crazy in my opinion.