ID cards for student loans
STUDENTS applying for loans will be forced to hold identity cards to access the funding, leaked Home Office documents have revealed.
The Whitehall strategy document showed young people would be targeted from 2010.
Airport workers will also be required to have the cards.
The government had planned to start issuing "significant volumes" of ID cards alongside passports from 2010. But the scheme is set to be delayed by two years.
The biometric cards are due to be introduced for foreign nationals later this year, with the first expected to be issued to UK citizens on a voluntary basis from 2009.
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