If your payment
amount under the Standard Repayment Plan is unmanageable, call us at (800) 243-7552 to speak with an experienced customer service representative to find the best plan for you.
The minimum monthly payment
amount under the Standard Repayment Plan will be equal to the amount necessary to repay the loan in full by the end of the repayment term.
Generally speaking, your payment amount under this plan will be 10 percent of your after - tax (discretionary) income, but will never exceed the monthly payment
amount under the standard repayment plan.
If you were a new borrower on or after July 1, 2014, then your payment amount under this plan will be 10 percent of your after - tax (discretionary) income, but will never exceed the monthly payment
amount under the standard repayment plan.
If your loans originated before then, the payment amount under this plan will be 15 percent of your after - tax (discretionary) income, but will never exceed the monthly payment
amount under the standard repayment plan.
Eligible Federal Loans Monthly Payments for Federal Education Loans Except Consolidation Loans Monthly Payments for Consolidation Loans Using the Repayment Estimator to Estimate Your Eligibility and Payment
Amount Under the Standard Repayment Plan
Not exact matches
Failure to recertify on time can result in your monthly payment reverting to the
amount you would pay
under the
Standard 10 - year
repayment plan, which may be significantly higher than your monthly payment on an IDR
plan.
If you miss the filing deadline, your payments may jump up to the
amount they were
under a
Standard Repayment Plan.
Under these plans, your monthly payment amount will be based on your income and family size when you first begin making payments, and at any time when your income is low enough that your calculated monthly payment amount would be less than the amount you would have to pay under the 10 - year Standard Repayment
Under these
plans, your monthly payment
amount will be based on your income and family size when you first begin making payments, and at any time when your income is low enough that your calculated monthly payment
amount would be less than the
amount you would have to pay
under the 10 - year Standard Repayment
under the 10 - year
Standard Repayment Plan.
Failure to recertify on time can result in your monthly payment reverting to the
amount you would pay
under the
Standard 10 - year
repayment plan, which may be significantly higher than your monthly payment on an IDR
plan.
To qualify for such a
plan, you need to show the monthly
amount you'd have to pay
under a
standard repayment plan is higher than the
amount under pay as you earn.
Any other Direct Loan Program
repayment plan; but only payments that are at least equal to the monthly payment amount that would have been required under the 10 - year Standard Repayment Plan may be counted toward the required 120
repayment plan; but only payments that are at least equal to the monthly payment amount that would have been required under the 10 - year Standard Repayment Plan may be counted toward the required 120 payme
plan; but only payments that are at least equal to the monthly payment
amount that would have been required
under the 10 - year
Standard Repayment Plan may be counted toward the required 120
Repayment Plan may be counted toward the required 120 payme
Plan may be counted toward the required 120 payments.
Payments made
under the
Standard Repayment Plan for Direct Consolidation Loans would qualify for PSLF purposes only if the maximum repayment period was set at 10 years, and that would be the case only if the total amount of the consolidation loan and your other education loan debt was less than
Repayment Plan for Direct Consolidation Loans would qualify for PSLF purposes only if the maximum
repayment period was set at 10 years, and that would be the case only if the total amount of the consolidation loan and your other education loan debt was less than
repayment period was set at 10 years, and that would be the case only if the total
amount of the consolidation loan and your other education loan debt was less than $ 7,500.
This longer
repayment period generally results in a lower monthly payment than the monthly payment amount required under the 10 - Year Standard Repaym
repayment period generally results in a lower monthly payment than the monthly payment
amount required
under the 10 - Year
Standard RepaymentRepayment Plan.
Therefore, payments made during the later portion of the
repayment period under the Graduated Repayment Plan may in some cases equal or exceed the payment amount that would be required under a 10 - Year Standard Repayment Plan, and these payments would count
repayment period
under the Graduated
Repayment Plan may in some cases equal or exceed the payment amount that would be required under a 10 - Year Standard Repayment Plan, and these payments would count
Repayment Plan may in some cases equal or exceed the payment
amount that would be required
under a 10 - Year
Standard Repayment Plan, and these payments would count
Repayment Plan, and these payments would count for PSLF.
Payments can be made through any one or combination of eligible
repayment plans, including income - driven
repayment, ten year
standard plan payments, or graduated or extended payments of not less than the monthly
amount that would be due
under a ten year
standard plan.
«If the payment
amount based on your income and family size ever increases to the point that it is higher than the
amount you would have to pay
under the 10 - year
Standard Repayment Plan, your payment will no longer be based on your income and family size.
For both
plans, the
amount that would be due
under a 10 - year
Standard Repayment Plan is calculated based on the greater of the amount owed on your eligible loans when you originally entered repayment, or the amount owed at the time you selected the IBR or Pay As You E
Repayment Plan is calculated based on the greater of the amount owed on your eligible loans when you originally entered repayment, or the amount owed at the time you selected the IBR or Pay As You Earn p
Plan is calculated based on the greater of the
amount owed on your eligible loans when you originally entered
repayment, or the amount owed at the time you selected the IBR or Pay As You E
repayment, or the
amount owed at the time you selected the IBR or Pay As You Earn
planplan.
No matter how much your income increases, you won't be obligated to pay more each month than the
amount you would have paid
under a 10 - year
standard repayment plan.
For Pay As You Earn, a circumstance in which the annual
amount due on your eligible loans, as calculated
under a 10 - year
Standard Repayment Plan, exceeds 10 percent of the difference between your adjusted gross income (AGI) and 150 percent of the poverty line for your family size in the state where you live.
We cover it in more detail here, but basically, your lender doesn't report the
amount you actually pay as your minimum payment, but rather, they report your payment
under the
standard repayment plan.
However, if you're having difficulty making payments, specifically due to the
amount of your student loan (
under any
standard repayment method), Obama's PAYE plan or IBR (Income Based Repayment) may make the most sense
repayment method), Obama's PAYE
plan or IBR (Income Based
Repayment) may make the most sense
Repayment) may make the most sense for you.
Income - Based
Repayment Plan (IBR Plan): This plan is for you if you are Direct Loan Program and FFEL Program borrower and your payment amount under this plan is less than what you would pay under the 10 - year Standard Repayment P
Plan (IBR
Plan): This plan is for you if you are Direct Loan Program and FFEL Program borrower and your payment amount under this plan is less than what you would pay under the 10 - year Standard Repayment P
Plan): This
plan is for you if you are Direct Loan Program and FFEL Program borrower and your payment amount under this plan is less than what you would pay under the 10 - year Standard Repayment P
plan is for you if you are Direct Loan Program and FFEL Program borrower and your payment
amount under this
plan is less than what you would pay under the 10 - year Standard Repayment P
plan is less than what you would pay
under the 10 - year
Standard Repayment PlanPlan.
Under Income - Based
Repayment Plan (IBR
Plan), your monthly payment is 10 or 15 per cent of your discretionary income if you're a new borrower on or after July 1, 2014, but never more than the 10 - year
Standard Repayment Plan amount.
That list should include the
amount owed and the
repayment schedule, which is calculated over 10 years under the Standard Repaym
repayment schedule, which is calculated over 10 years
under the
Standard RepaymentRepayment Plan.
Other PSLF - qualifying
repayment plans are the 10 - Year Standard Repayment Plan or any other repayment plan where your monthly payment amount equals or exceeds what you would pay under a 10 - Year Standard Repaym
repayment plans are the 10 - Year
Standard Repayment Plan or any other repayment plan where your monthly payment amount equals or exceeds what you would pay under a 10 - Year Standard Repaym
Repayment Plan or any other repayment plan where your monthly payment amount equals or exceeds what you would pay under a 10 - Year Standard Repayment P
Plan or any other
repayment plan where your monthly payment amount equals or exceeds what you would pay under a 10 - Year Standard Repaym
repayment plan where your monthly payment amount equals or exceeds what you would pay under a 10 - Year Standard Repayment P
plan where your monthly payment
amount equals or exceeds what you would pay
under a 10 - Year
Standard RepaymentRepayment PlanPlan.
If that
amount is less than the monthly
amount required
under the
standard 10 - year
repayment plan, that student would be eligible for IBR.
For these borrowers, PAYE and the IBR offer very similar terms, though PAYE is slightly more borrower - friendly for two reasons: (1) if a borrower no longer has a partial financial hardship, all outstanding interest is capitalized
under IBR but the
amount of interest capitalized is capped
under PAYE; (2) borrowers in IBR who wish to change to another
repayment plan must jump through a procedural hoop of spending at least one month in the
standard repayment plan before switching to their desired
plan, and borrowers in PAYE face no such switching hurdle.
Forgiveness would occur when a borrower has repaid the same total loan
amount they would have repaid
under the
standard repayment plan (In other words, forgiveness after 20 or 25 years would be eliminated and time to forgiveness would vary by borrower).
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, REPAYE's barriers to excluding spousal income, along with REPAYE's lack of a payment «cap» at the
amount a borrower would pay
under the
standard repayment plan, may nonetheless make IBR a better option for some married borrowers — especially those with graduate school debt who face a 25 - year
repayment period
under either
plan.
Repayment under this plan will never result in higher monthly payments than the borrower would have made under a standard repayment plan, because the PAYE payment amount is capped at whatever that amount
Repayment under this
plan will never result in higher monthly payments than the borrower would have made
under a
standard repayment plan, because the PAYE payment amount is capped at whatever that amount
repayment plan, because the PAYE payment
amount is capped at whatever that
amount would be.
PROSPER offers two
repayment plans: a
standard 10 - year amortized
plan and an IDR
plan in which one pays the
amount one would have paid
under the
standard 10 - year
plan over some indeterminate time based on the borrower's income.
You will qualify for the IBR if the combined monthly
amount you are required to pay on your eligible student loans
under the 10 - year
standard repayment plan is higher than the monthly
amount you would be required to pay
under IBR.
** Any other Direct Loan
repayment plan, but only payments that are at least equal to the monthly payment amount that would have been paid under the Standard Repayment Plan with a 10 - year repayment period may be counted toward the required 120 monthly
repayment plan, but only payments that are at least equal to the monthly payment amount that would have been paid under the Standard Repayment Plan with a 10 - year repayment period may be counted toward the required 120 monthly payme
plan, but only payments that are at least equal to the monthly payment
amount that would have been paid
under the
Standard Repayment Plan with a 10 - year repayment period may be counted toward the required 120 monthly
Repayment Plan with a 10 - year repayment period may be counted toward the required 120 monthly payme
Plan with a 10 - year
repayment period may be counted toward the required 120 monthly
repayment period may be counted toward the required 120 monthly payments.
(
Under the
Standard Repayment Plan, payments of a fixed
amount are spread out over 120 months.)
According to Equal Justice Works, a partial financial hardship «exists when the annual
amount due on all of a borrower's eligible loans, as calculated
under a
standard 10 year
repayment plan, exceeds 15 percent of discretionary income.»
If you miss the filing deadline, your payments may jump up to the
amount they were
under a
Standard Repayment Plan.
Well, if the
amount you'd be paying with a
Standard Repayment Plan is higher than what you'd be required to pay
under Pay As You Earn, then you would be eligible.
Instead, your required monthly payment
amount will be the
amount you would pay
under a
Standard Repayment Plan with a 10 - year repayment period, based on the loan amount you owed when you initially entered the income - driven repaym
Repayment Plan with a 10 - year repayment period, based on the loan amount you owed when you initially entered the income - driven repayment p
Plan with a 10 - year
repayment period, based on the loan amount you owed when you initially entered the income - driven repaym
repayment period, based on the loan
amount you owed when you initially entered the income - driven
repaymentrepayment planplan.
Under these plans, your monthly payment amount will be based on your income and family size when you first begin making payments, and at any time when your income is low enough that your calculated monthly payment amount would be less than the amount you would have to pay under the 10 - year Standard Repayment
Under these
plans, your monthly payment
amount will be based on your income and family size when you first begin making payments, and at any time when your income is low enough that your calculated monthly payment
amount would be less than the
amount you would have to pay
under the 10 - year Standard Repayment
under the 10 - year
Standard Repayment Plan.
Under the
standard repayment plan, payments are made at fixed
amounts that amortize over the course of ten years.
If this borrower had total student loan debt of $ 20,000 the calculated monthly
repayment amount under a 10 - year
standard plan with an interest rate of 6.8 percent would be $ 230.
Your maximum monthly payment
amount will be 15 % of your discretionary income but no more than payments
under the
Standard Repayment Plan.
The
repayment amount under a 10 - year
standard plan is calculated based upon the total
amount borrowed and the applicable interest rate applied over 10 years.
If this borrower had total eligible student loan debt of $ 25,000 when the loans initially entered
repayment, and the loan balance had increased to $ 30,000 when the borrower requested Pay As You Earn, the calculated monthly
repayment amount under a 10 - year
standard plan would be based on the higher of the two
amounts.
If that
amount is lower than the monthly payment you would be required to pay on your eligible loans
under a 10 - year
Standard Repayment Plan, then you are eligible to repay your loans under the Pay As You Earn p
Plan, then you are eligible to repay your loans
under the Pay As You Earn
planplan.
If you do not provide the documentation, your monthly payment
amount will be the
amount you would be required to pay
under a 10 - year
Standard Repayment Plan, based on the
amount you owed when you began repaying
under Pay As You Earn.
If the combined monthly
amount you and your spouse would be required to pay
under Pay As You Earn is lower than the combined monthly
amount you and your spouse would pay
under a 10 - year
Standard Repayment Plan, you and your spouse are eligible for Pay As You Earn.
Under standard or regular
repayment plans, if you pay your minimum payment on time each month, every monthly payment
amount will remain the same.