Borrowers with federal student loan debt may benefit more from consolidating their public student loans or evaluating their options for an income - based repayment plan to lower their monthly payment.
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Although
most borrowers with federal student loan debt are already eligible for income - driven repayment plans that can dramatically reduce their monthly payments, they won't qualify for forgiveness until they've made payments for 20 to 25 years.
Another option that might be available to
borrowers with federal student loans is loan forgiveness.
The following options are available only to
borrowers with federal student loans.
Borrowers with federal student loans may also find that their payments go up after refinancing if they had been on a graduated payment or income - driven repayment plan.
For example,
borrowers with federal student loans can take advantage of federal income - driven repayment programs, or benefits like loan forgiveness, which borrowers with private student loans typically don't have access to.
It mostly applies to
borrowers with federal student loans and allows you to keep all of the benefits that your federal loans offer (such as income based repayment plans and student loan forgiveness).
For example,
borrowers with federal student loans can take advantage of federal income - driven repayment programs, or benefits like loan forgiveness, which borrowers with private student loans typically don't have access to.
Most of the strategies discussed here apply only to
borrowers with federal student loans.
Student loan consolidation mostly applies to
borrowers with Federal student loans.
More than 4 million of the 42 million
borrowers with federal student loan debt have taken advantage of alternative methods to pay back their loans based on a percentage of their income, the Department of Education said in its most recent financial report to Congress.
Borrowers with federal student loans have a legal right to an income - based repayment plan but a recent report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has found that some students are denied the opportunity to participate in these programs.
Borrowers with federal student loans may also find that their payments go up after refinancing if they had been on a graduated payment or income - driven repayment plan.
The following options are available only to
borrowers with federal student loans.
As a matter of law,
borrowers with Federal student loans are entitled to deferment so long as they meet certain eligibility requirements, which include:
Even if a student loan is in default (and with a debt collector),
borrowers with federal student loans can rehabilitate the loan.
Borrowers with federal student loans shouldn't consider refinancing.
However, since opening up its loan services in 2009,
any borrower with federal student loans may have OSLA assigned as their servicer.