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The government said offering an alternative would "break down barriers to opportunity", because white working class pupils were twice as likely to need to resit than their better-off classmates.

"If the chancellor wants to raise more from the better-off, a better approach would be to fix existing wealth-related taxes, including capital gains tax," it noted.

It’s not to drag the relatively better-off down to the bottom, but to allow more people to pull themselves up.

As Sherry Glied, a health economist, New York University professor, and pointed critic of health savings accounts, wrote in 2022: “HSAs are a tax advantage for better-off people.”

Coming from a relatively better-off family, Seok lived close to the border with China and had access to K-pop and K-drama through smuggled USBs and SD cards.