What profession are you in if you don't mind me asking?
Biden doesn't want to fight for 50,000 student loan relief. It's too hard
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What profession are you in if you don't mind me asking?
Healthcare and I work for a non profit. If need assistance or thinking of doing it let me know. I can email you tons of good resources.
I appreciate it but unfortunately I'm no longer eligible
When I graduated initially I worked as a social worker with individuals with disabilities for a non-profit.
However, in 2018 New York State implemented a new system which separated the position I was working from the non-profit companies tp avoid potential conflicts of interest as well as other changes.
As a result my position ended up under a company which is now a for profit due to the tax codes/laws which meant it couldn't operate as a non-profit and screwing me in the process.
I appreciate it but unfortunately I'm no longer eligible
When I graduated initially I worked as a social worker with individuals with disabilities for a non-profit.
However, in 2018 New York State implemented a new system which separated the position I was working from the non-profit companies tp avoid potential conflicts of interest as well as other changes.
As a result my position ended up under a company which is now a for profit due to the tax codes/laws which meant it couldn't operate as a non-profit and screwing me in the process.
I am sure you know more than me, but have you verified with the Dept of Education to see if your new company qualifies? If you know the EIN you can look it up...
Thanks bro
Thanks broCongrats bro
Yes, we all looked into it and it was a no go.
I may check again though just to see, nothing hurts a try but a fail.
A bribe is a bribe and if it benefits our people, so be it. Btw not like the opposition deserves to be in charge anyway.
New Data Shows Most Who Apply To This Student Loan Forgiveness Program Are Denied
The data shows that 98% of applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) were rejected. Will the Biden administration take steps to fix the broken program?
www.forbes.com
New data released by the U.S. Department of Education shows that most borrowers who apply to a key student loan forgiveness program are denied relief.
The data shows that 98% of applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) from November 9, 2020 to April 30, 2021 were rejected. Only two out of every hundred applicants were approved.
That’s that bullshit I was talking about.New Data Shows Most Who Apply To This Student Loan Forgiveness Program Are Denied
The data shows that 98% of applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) were rejected. Will the Biden administration take steps to fix the broken program?
New data released by the U.S. Department of Education shows that most borrowers who apply to a key student loan forgiveness program are denied relief.
The data shows that 98% of applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) from November 9, 2020 to April 30, 2021 were rejected. Only two out of every hundred applicants were approved.
New Data Shows Most Who Apply To This Student Loan Forgiveness Program Are Denied
The data shows that 98% of applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) were rejected. Will the Biden administration take steps to fix the broken program?
New data released by the U.S. Department of Education shows that most borrowers who apply to a key student loan forgiveness program are denied relief.
The data shows that 98% of applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) from November 9, 2020 to April 30, 2021 were rejected. Only two out of every hundred applicants were approved.
Old data. A few thousands of people have gotten their loans forgiving including myself from this program.....In the past, yes it was some BS but since Biden has been in office the Sec. of Education made it's his mission to fix it...Still not perfect, but people are given loans forgiven...
Education Secretary Calls Student Loan Debt Burden 'Unacceptable'
"We maintain a posture of neglect when post-secondary education is out of reach for students and their families. This is un-American," Miguel Cardona said.
www.newsweek.com
100,000 student-loan borrowers are getting their debt wiped out after recent reforms. Here's how to know if you're eligible.
Since Biden reformed Public Service Loan Forgiveness last fall, thousands of teachers, military, and other nonprofit or public workers can get relief.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness: The Deadline to Apply Is Today
Time is running short. The limited waiver expires tonight.
www.cnet.com
Biden has canceled $15B in student loan debt since taking office
Since taking office, President Joe Biden has enacted nearly $15 billion worth of student loan forgiveness via executive action, according to the Department of Education.
Portraits of Relief (Published 2022)
Waves of borrowers in the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program are seeing their debts go to zero. Here’s how six of them finally got there.
Portraits of Relief
Waves of borrowers in the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program are seeing their debts go to zero. Here’s how six of them finally got there.
Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times; Taylor Glascock for The New York Times; Tony Novak-Clifford for The New York Times; Allison Zaucha for The New York Times; Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times (2)
By Ron Lieber
When the Department of Education announced a plan to fix many hellish problems with its Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, hundreds of thousands of beleaguered borrowers held their breath.
Since 2007, the program has promised hope for those who pledged to advance the public good. If they made 120 payments on time, their loans would be forgiven. During that time, their balances often grew because of the income-based payments the program required.
The devil was in the details, and the devil often won. Borrowers frequently shared their stories of yearslong bureaucratic struggles. The waiver program announced in October, however, promised to yank open some doors — borrowers could seek credit for categories of payments that were previously ineligible.
And over the last several weeks, the momentum turned: Exhaling borrowers are running into the light, debt-free. “I’m extremely thankful,” Katherine Ojeda Stewart, a public defender in Los Angeles, told me. “But the emotional capital you had to expend took a lot out of me.”
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Continue reading the main story
I spoke to six borrowers who, all told, have been freed from more than $800,000 in debt. Their stories chronicle the hope, the disappointment and finally the relief felt by so many.
Image
Louisa Nuckolls at the DuPage County courthouse in Wheaton, Ill. She has her eye on buying a condo after having her student debt forgiven.Credit...Taylor Glascock for The New York Times
Louisa Nuckolls
Assistant State’s Attorney | Wheaton, Ill.
Debt Relief: $200,000
In order to participate in the P.S.L.F. program, you needed to know that it existed in the first place — and many didn’t learn about it for years because the Education Department did a lousy job spreading the word about its potentially life-changing program.
Louisa Nuckolls, 50, was among the lucky ones. She was tipped off early by a defense lawyer who once had a job like hers. “It was around 2008, and he told me that there was this new program where if you work in government for 10 years, you could have your loans forgiven,” she said. “He said that he wished he would have stuck around the prosecutor’s office.”
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Continue reading the main story
Administrators in her office soon heard about it, too, and encouraged people to sign up. What, they figured, did everyone in the office have to lose by throwing in with the nascent program?
“They started sending emails around saying, ‘Hey, this is out there — we’re not sure how effective it’s going to be,’” Ms. Nuckolls said.
They were right to be dubious: Over the last few years, Ms. Nuckolls kept noticing inaccurate payment counts when she checked on her status. They were never in her favor.
“It was almost like the ball kept being moved,” she said.
Image
Katherine Ojeda Stewart, right, and her wife, Angelique Stewart, with their children, from left, Jessie and Elliana. Loan forgiveness will make it easier to afford their new home.Credit...Allison Zaucha for The New York Times
Katherine Ojeda Stewart
Deputy Alternate Public Defender | Los Angeles
Debt Relief: $315,000
Katherine Stewart, 39, was caught up in even more of the program’s many tripwires.
Fresh out of law school, Ms. Stewart was making so little that her income-driven repayment program meant she didn’t have to pay anything at all on her student loans. Just to be safe, though, she made small payments anyway: Sending in a little something would mean she’d definitely get credit, she figured, because there would be a record of payment.
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
Paradoxically, Ms. Stewart got in trouble for it. People like her often wouldn’t get credit for any month during which they had paid more than they were supposed to, stifling their progress toward the 120 payments they needed. Trying to get ahead caused them to stand still.
That wasn’t the only problem. Because she lived close to the scenes of wildfires in California, she was put into a kind of automatic emergency forbearance — and wasn’t getting credit toward forgiveness for the monthly payments she was still making. This happened twice.
On top of that, the entities managing her payments changed repeatedly, and she kept losing credit for payments made during the transition.
Dealing with the servicers was “nightmarish,” Ms. Stewart said.
“This was, like it was for everyone, a second job,” she said.
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Megan Harrington, whose boss isn’t seeking re-election this year, will have more flexibility when she looks for a new job, because her debt has been wiped away.Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
Megan Harrington
Senior Policy Adviser | Washington
Debt Relief: $182,000
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The program tested even Megan Harrington, who helps make policy — including around education issues — in the office of Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio. When constituents got in touch about their own P.S.L.F. problems, she could offer a comforting voice and maybe some notes on possible regulatory or legal tweaks that were under consideration.
Ms. Harrington, 36, could also commiserate: Several years of her records disappeared after two former servicers went out of business, a problem that took more than a year to sort out. Her friends on Capitol Hill — Democrats and Republicans alike — also had trouble navigating the system.
“People probably don’t realize that a lot of folks on the Hill were caught up in this, too,” she said.
The troubles made for some problematic messaging.
“People involved in public service, we go to work with a full heart and energy, to do jobs to help people, because we believe in what we do and that this is a calling,” Ms. Harrington said. “When you have a poorly administered program and it’s so frustrating to people, there’s real risk around whether people would even want to enter public service.”
But at its best — and someday it just might get there — the P.S.L.F. program attracts people who might not have considered public service at all.
“It’s been a privilege of a lifetime to work on behalf of the people of Ohio, to help Washington understand the concerns of everyday citizens and help people understand what the federal government can do to help them — or at least not hurt them,” Ms. Harrington said. “It’s been rewarding. But it hasn’t been easy.”
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David Negaard hopes loan forgiveness will make it possible for him to afford to retire in pricey Hawaii.Credit...Tony Novak-Clifford for The New York Times
David Negaard
English Teacher | Wailuku, Hawaii
Debt Relief: About $105,000
David Negaard dedicated himself to service right away, joining the Navy after high school. After six years and a stint on a guided missile cruiser, he left the Navy and worked as a quality control engineer for several years before going to college.
“I either wanted to be a teacher or a youth minister,” Mr. Negaard, 62, said. “Teaching was where, you might call it, the money was.”
Few teachers get rich, so let him explain what he was thinking back in 1996.
“A degree used to be a guarantee of sufficient income to retire any debt in short order,” said Mr. Negaard, who added a master’s degree in 2010. “But that is no longer true. Many degreed people are unable to earn the kind of money, proportional to the cost of education, that used to be routine. And that includes me.”
Indeed, the combination of loans was too much at some points, and he took hardship deferments when it became overwhelming.
After 23 years in the classroom, Mr. Negaard figures he would have made a lot more money if he had remained an electronics professional with a high school diploma. So he makes no apologies for availing himself of the P.S.L.F. program.
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Continue reading the main story
“I understand that I incurred the debt, and I’m grateful that there are opportunities for someone like me, who chooses to serve the public good, to discharge debt that had become burdensome,” he said. “Not because I had done something wrong, but because the world had changed right out from under me.”
Forgiveness is “life-changing,” Mr. Negaard said.
“It makes it possible not just to survive but to prosper and perhaps even live life fully, or more fully,” he said. “It opens up possibilities for my future in a way that very little ever has.”
Image
The Townsends can now turn their attention to paying for college — for their own children.Credit...Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times
Rebecca M. and Thomas H. Townsend
Associate Professor and Appellate Lawyer | Longmeadow, Mass.
Debt Relief: $33,000
The Townsends’ multigenerational student loan saga will be familiar for many — too many — families.
Rebecca Townsend’s father, the child of immigrants, was determined to put his three daughters through school. He and his wife eventually filed for bankruptcy — there was a lot of medical debt — and when he died in 2003, he and her mother were still repaying one of Dr. Townsend’s loans.
She and her husband met at as undergraduates at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the early 1990s — Mr. Townsend, 49, was the first in his family to graduate from college — and they eventually earned three advanced degrees between them. Dr. Townsend, 48, got a master’s and then a Ph.D., and is now an associate professor of communication at the University of Hartford. Mr. Townsend went to law school, and today he works to preserve criminal convictions that are on appeal.
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Financing it all was expensive: Both of them consolidated their loans, repackaging them into two monsters totaling $203,000. P.S.L.F. provided a glimmer of hope, then came a crushing realization that the graduated repayment plan they had eventually chosen to better afford children made them ineligible for it altogether.
So they started over in a new repayment plan in 2015. When Congress enacted one of its patchwork P.S.L.F fixes in 2018, they found themselves ineligible for it, too.
“It almost felt like a cruel joke,” Dr. Townsend said.
Late last year, they put in for the waiver and crossed their fingers. This month, Dr. Townsend got the good news. A few days later, Mr. Townsend received notice that his payments were delinquent.
Just kidding, a phone rep at the loan servicer eventually told him. There was an error, and his balance had also gone to zero.
A Brighter Future
Everyone who spoke to me expressed gratitude for the relief. Ms. Harrington cried when she got the news. Ms. Stewart’s wife also shed tears. Ms. Nuckolls reread her notification twice and then called her servicer to be sure. Mr. Negaard “may have whooped.”
They also told me of their resolve going forward.
Ms. Nuckolls, the assistant state’s attorney in Illinois, has her eye on a condo and hopes to become a first-time homeowner in her 50s. Ms. Stewart and her wife — who moved their two daughters into a home they bought in Hawthorne, Calif., last year — do not have to worry that student loan bills will derail them.
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Continue reading the main story
Mr. Negaard and his wife will pay down some of the mortgage on their 670-square-foot condo. They are daring to imagine travel away from Hawaii — and being able to afford to stay there during retirement. Ms. Harrington is pondering her next career move now that Mr. Portman is leaving the Senate, and she can consider private-sector jobs without worrying that a corporate position will endanger her attempts at loan forgiveness.
And like so many other parents — including Ms. Stewart and her wife — the Townsends are taking money that would have gone toward education debt repayment and putting it toward education debt prevention.
“We had been trying to save for college for both of our boys,” Dr. Townsend said. “We decided early on, before we had kids, that we did not want them to have the debt that we had. I know that my dad didn’t want that for his daughters, either.”
Portraits of Relief (Published 2022)
Waves of borrowers in the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program are seeing their debts go to zero. Here’s how six of them finally got there.www.nytimes.com
Portraits of Relief
Waves of borrowers in the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program are seeing their debts go to zero. Here’s how six of them finally got there.
Jan. 25, 2022
Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times; Taylor Glascock for The New York Times; Tony Novak-Clifford for The New York Times; Allison Zaucha for The New York Times; Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times (2)
By Ron Lieber
When the Department of Education announced a plan to fix many hellish problems with its Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, hundreds of thousands of beleaguered borrowers held their breath.
Since 2007, the program has promised hope for those who pledged to advance the public good. If they made 120 payments on time, their loans would be forgiven. During that time, their balances often grew because of the income-based payments the program required.
The devil was in the details, and the devil often won. Borrowers frequently shared their stories of yearslong bureaucratic struggles. The waiver program announced in October, however, promised to yank open some doors — borrowers could seek credit for categories of payments that were previously ineligible.
And over the last several weeks, the momentum turned: Exhaling borrowers are running into the light, debt-free. “I’m extremely thankful,” Katherine Ojeda Stewart, a public defender in Los Angeles, told me. “But the emotional capital you had to expend took a lot out of me.”
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
I spoke to six borrowers who, all told, have been freed from more than $800,000 in debt. Their stories chronicle the hope, the disappointment and finally the relief felt by so many.
Image
Louisa Nuckolls at the DuPage County courthouse in Wheaton, Ill. She has her eye on buying a condo after having her student debt forgiven.Credit...Taylor Glascock for The New York Times
Louisa Nuckolls
Assistant State’s Attorney | Wheaton, Ill.
Debt Relief: $200,000
In order to participate in the P.S.L.F. program, you needed to know that it existed in the first place — and many didn’t learn about it for years because the Education Department did a lousy job spreading the word about its potentially life-changing program.
Louisa Nuckolls, 50, was among the lucky ones. She was tipped off early by a defense lawyer who once had a job like hers. “It was around 2008, and he told me that there was this new program where if you work in government for 10 years, you could have your loans forgiven,” she said. “He said that he wished he would have stuck around the prosecutor’s office.”
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
Administrators in her office soon heard about it, too, and encouraged people to sign up. What, they figured, did everyone in the office have to lose by throwing in with the nascent program?
“They started sending emails around saying, ‘Hey, this is out there — we’re not sure how effective it’s going to be,’” Ms. Nuckolls said.
They were right to be dubious: Over the last few years, Ms. Nuckolls kept noticing inaccurate payment counts when she checked on her status. They were never in her favor.
“It was almost like the ball kept being moved,” she said.
Image
Katherine Ojeda Stewart, right, and her wife, Angelique Stewart, with their children, from left, Jessie and Elliana. Loan forgiveness will make it easier to afford their new home.Credit...Allison Zaucha for The New York Times
Katherine Ojeda Stewart
Deputy Alternate Public Defender | Los Angeles
Debt Relief: $315,000
Katherine Stewart, 39, was caught up in even more of the program’s many tripwires.
Fresh out of law school, Ms. Stewart was making so little that her income-driven repayment program meant she didn’t have to pay anything at all on her student loans. Just to be safe, though, she made small payments anyway: Sending in a little something would mean she’d definitely get credit, she figured, because there would be a record of payment.
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
Paradoxically, Ms. Stewart got in trouble for it. People like her often wouldn’t get credit for any month during which they had paid more than they were supposed to, stifling their progress toward the 120 payments they needed. Trying to get ahead caused them to stand still.
That wasn’t the only problem. Because she lived close to the scenes of wildfires in California, she was put into a kind of automatic emergency forbearance — and wasn’t getting credit toward forgiveness for the monthly payments she was still making. This happened twice.
On top of that, the entities managing her payments changed repeatedly, and she kept losing credit for payments made during the transition.
Dealing with the servicers was “nightmarish,” Ms. Stewart said.
“This was, like it was for everyone, a second job,” she said.
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Megan Harrington, whose boss isn’t seeking re-election this year, will have more flexibility when she looks for a new job, because her debt has been wiped away.Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
Megan Harrington
Senior Policy Adviser | Washington
Debt Relief: $182,000
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
The program tested even Megan Harrington, who helps make policy — including around education issues — in the office of Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio. When constituents got in touch about their own P.S.L.F. problems, she could offer a comforting voice and maybe some notes on possible regulatory or legal tweaks that were under consideration.
Ms. Harrington, 36, could also commiserate: Several years of her records disappeared after two former servicers went out of business, a problem that took more than a year to sort out. Her friends on Capitol Hill — Democrats and Republicans alike — also had trouble navigating the system.
“People probably don’t realize that a lot of folks on the Hill were caught up in this, too,” she said.
The troubles made for some problematic messaging.
“People involved in public service, we go to work with a full heart and energy, to do jobs to help people, because we believe in what we do and that this is a calling,” Ms. Harrington said. “When you have a poorly administered program and it’s so frustrating to people, there’s real risk around whether people would even want to enter public service.”
But at its best — and someday it just might get there — the P.S.L.F. program attracts people who might not have considered public service at all.
“It’s been a privilege of a lifetime to work on behalf of the people of Ohio, to help Washington understand the concerns of everyday citizens and help people understand what the federal government can do to help them — or at least not hurt them,” Ms. Harrington said. “It’s been rewarding. But it hasn’t been easy.”
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
Image
David Negaard hopes loan forgiveness will make it possible for him to afford to retire in pricey Hawaii.Credit...Tony Novak-Clifford for The New York Times
David Negaard
English Teacher | Wailuku, Hawaii
Debt Relief: About $105,000
David Negaard dedicated himself to service right away, joining the Navy after high school. After six years and a stint on a guided missile cruiser, he left the Navy and worked as a quality control engineer for several years before going to college.
“I either wanted to be a teacher or a youth minister,” Mr. Negaard, 62, said. “Teaching was where, you might call it, the money was.”
Few teachers get rich, so let him explain what he was thinking back in 1996.
“A degree used to be a guarantee of sufficient income to retire any debt in short order,” said Mr. Negaard, who added a master’s degree in 2010. “But that is no longer true. Many degreed people are unable to earn the kind of money, proportional to the cost of education, that used to be routine. And that includes me.”
Indeed, the combination of loans was too much at some points, and he took hardship deferments when it became overwhelming.
After 23 years in the classroom, Mr. Negaard figures he would have made a lot more money if he had remained an electronics professional with a high school diploma. So he makes no apologies for availing himself of the P.S.L.F. program.
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
“I understand that I incurred the debt, and I’m grateful that there are opportunities for someone like me, who chooses to serve the public good, to discharge debt that had become burdensome,” he said. “Not because I had done something wrong, but because the world had changed right out from under me.”
Forgiveness is “life-changing,” Mr. Negaard said.
“It makes it possible not just to survive but to prosper and perhaps even live life fully, or more fully,” he said. “It opens up possibilities for my future in a way that very little ever has.”
Image
The Townsends can now turn their attention to paying for college — for their own children.Credit...Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times
Rebecca M. and Thomas H. Townsend
Associate Professor and Appellate Lawyer | Longmeadow, Mass.
Debt Relief: $33,000
The Townsends’ multigenerational student loan saga will be familiar for many — too many — families.
Rebecca Townsend’s father, the child of immigrants, was determined to put his three daughters through school. He and his wife eventually filed for bankruptcy — there was a lot of medical debt — and when he died in 2003, he and her mother were still repaying one of Dr. Townsend’s loans.
She and her husband met at as undergraduates at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the early 1990s — Mr. Townsend, 49, was the first in his family to graduate from college — and they eventually earned three advanced degrees between them. Dr. Townsend, 48, got a master’s and then a Ph.D., and is now an associate professor of communication at the University of Hartford. Mr. Townsend went to law school, and today he works to preserve criminal convictions that are on appeal.
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
Financing it all was expensive: Both of them consolidated their loans, repackaging them into two monsters totaling $203,000. P.S.L.F. provided a glimmer of hope, then came a crushing realization that the graduated repayment plan they had eventually chosen to better afford children made them ineligible for it altogether.
So they started over in a new repayment plan in 2015. When Congress enacted one of its patchwork P.S.L.F fixes in 2018, they found themselves ineligible for it, too.
“It almost felt like a cruel joke,” Dr. Townsend said.
Late last year, they put in for the waiver and crossed their fingers. This month, Dr. Townsend got the good news. A few days later, Mr. Townsend received notice that his payments were delinquent.
Just kidding, a phone rep at the loan servicer eventually told him. There was an error, and his balance had also gone to zero.
A Brighter Future
Everyone who spoke to me expressed gratitude for the relief. Ms. Harrington cried when she got the news. Ms. Stewart’s wife also shed tears. Ms. Nuckolls reread her notification twice and then called her servicer to be sure. Mr. Negaard “may have whooped.”
They also told me of their resolve going forward.
Ms. Nuckolls, the assistant state’s attorney in Illinois, has her eye on a condo and hopes to become a first-time homeowner in her 50s. Ms. Stewart and her wife — who moved their two daughters into a home they bought in Hawthorne, Calif., last year — do not have to worry that student loan bills will derail them.
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
Mr. Negaard and his wife will pay down some of the mortgage on their 670-square-foot condo. They are daring to imagine travel away from Hawaii — and being able to afford to stay there during retirement. Ms. Harrington is pondering her next career move now that Mr. Portman is leaving the Senate, and she can consider private-sector jobs without worrying that a corporate position will endanger her attempts at loan forgiveness.
And like so many other parents — including Ms. Stewart and her wife — the Townsends are taking money that would have gone toward education debt repayment and putting it toward education debt prevention.
“We had been trying to save for college for both of our boys,” Dr. Townsend said. “We decided early on, before we had kids, that we did not want them to have the debt that we had. I know that my dad didn’t want that for his daughters, either.”
Im here for all of this. As you said, things are moving slowly however there is no reason for it to be moving slowly when Biden can help out hundreds of thousands of people with the stroke of a pen instead of just hundreds of people.
100% agree.
So I am not sure who this dude is, but my thing is where was this energy when Betsy Devo was over the Dept. of Education? How many years has Biden been in office? He staff has done more than any other president has after Obama in atleast starting to fix some of the problems. I know because I benefited from the PSLF program a program Betsy Devo wanted to eliminated. No one talks about how she wanted to make it a felony
Betsy DeVos: the billionaire Republican destroying public education
Cuts, attacks, rollbacks – the education secretary’s campaign to dismantle America’s public system has continued unabated
DeVos tightens rules for forgiving student loans
They set a more stringent standard for when the Education Department will wipe out the debt of borrowers who say they were misled by their colleges.
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My nearly $50k in student loans was forgiven this week thanks to the Limited PLSF waiver. Feels great.
Congrats cuz.
FUCK YEAH!!! CONGRATS BIG DAWG!!! HOW DOES IT FEEL?? HAD MINES DISCHARGED IN JANUARY!!! I SWEAR MY CRUSADE IS TO HELP OTHERS NAVIGATE THE PSLF PROGRAM. 120k OVER HERE
Congrats bro. Truly happy for you. Did you have to do the full 10 year payment plan?
Naw it actually was only 8 years because of Covid. I’ve been trying to tell people if you are eligible sign up before October so you can get those 2 years credited. I know some people are having hard times, but if they keep pushing this extension back those months are going to be credited to your account.
I have friends who haven’t even started making payments because of the amount you have to pay which is 10% of your income but there are ways to get that lowered and sometimes we have to understand what our responsibilities are.
I have a great full time job at a nonprofit, but I decided to get a part time job working every other weekend and would do other little hustles so my quality of life wouldn’t suffer.
Not taking full advantage of the check Covid forbearance was one of my biggest mistakes. I didn’t consolidate into direct loans until last year. I missed out on not paying for a full year. I’m trying my hardest to get coworkers with loans to sign up even if they aren’t close to 10 years yet. This is going to be over 2 years of free payments for a lot of people and if they extend again ain’t no telling.
I see a ton of folks on Reddit getting refunds for years of payments
Man those Reddit groups regarding student loans kept my sanity over the past few years. So many jewels and gems are dropped in their it's crazy...
How can one find out if they qualify or not?
This help tool is a good start. You also need to find out your company's EIN. That will be the determing factor.