Not exact matches
There is a major difference between the income - contingent and income - sensitive
repayment plans and that is ICR deals with loans made
under the William D. Ford Direct Loan program and ISR deals only with loans made
under the Federal Family Education Loan program (FFEL).
There is generally an income eligibility for these
plans in which your payment
under one of these
plans must be lower than what it would be
under a standard
repayment plan.
I'm confused at the part where you mention that
under ibr
there isn't a chance for forgiveness after the 25 years... i was just reading a document about all the
repayment options and it said that
under any of them
there is a chance for forgiveness after the 20 - 25 years though the time can vary from
plan to
plan.
There are cases when a loan can be forgiven for making 20 years of payments
under an income - driven
repayment plan.
In fact, if you make all of the required 120 qualifying payments
under the 10 - Year Standard
Repayment Plan,
there will be no remaining balance on your loans to be forgiven.
As opposed to PAYE,
under this
plan there is no cap on monthly payment amounts and a borrower could end up making payments that are greater than what would be required
under a standard
repayment plan.
However,
there are no monthly payment caps
under REPAYE, so your payments could end up much higher than they would on the Standard
Repayment Plan.
Remember,
under PSLF, both IBR and RePAYE count as qualifying
repayment plans, so
there isn't a problem
there.
Is
there a cap on the amount of debt that can be forgiven when paying
under one of these
repayment plans such as IBR or PAYE?
Although a chapter 13 debtor generally receives a discharge only after completing all payments required by the court - approved (i.e., «confirmed»)
repayment plan,
there are some limited circumstances
under which the debtor may request the court to grant a «hardship discharge» even though the debtor has failed to complete
plan payments.
Under the full deferment payment
plan, interest and principal will be deferred while you are in school, and for an additional grace period of up to six months (allowing for a combined maximum deferment of 32 months), after which
there will be a ten - year (120 months) or fifteen - year (180 months)
repayment period.
As it stands
under current law, the remaining loan balance will be forgiven after 25 years of payments, so
there's a good chance we won't have to repay in full (Income based
repayment plan).