Each time we approve an ECF, we will update
the count of qualifying payments that you have made to include payments made during the updated period of employment that has been certified.
Not exact matches
Even though you and your employee already know whether the employment for your organization
qualifies, an updated ECF is the only way for an employee to be sure that all
of the
payments made over the course
of the last year
of employment
count toward PSLF.
If you have several types
of federal loans, you can consolidate them into a Direct Consolidation Loan so they'll
qualify — but your prior loan
payments won't
count.
GiftCard purchases, online gift certificates, packaging, taxes, shipping & handling, and
payment of a Banana Republic account do not
count toward the
qualifying amount.
When it comes to couples, if only one person
qualifies for SSI
payments, some
of the other person's income may be
counted when determining income amount.
If you make multiple partial
payments that total at least your monthly
payment amount, and you make those
payments no later than 15 days after the scheduled
payment due date for that month's
payment, the series
of partial
payments will
count as a one
qualifying payment for PSLF.
If you make multiple, partial
payments in a month and the total
of those partial
payments equals or exceeds the required full monthly
payment amount, those
payments will
count as only one
qualifying payment.
For a
payment to
count as one
of the required 120
qualifying payments, you must be a full - time employee at a
qualifying public service organization on the date that your federal loan servicer receives your monthly Direct Loan
payment.
If you make a
payment for a month that is less than what you are required to pay for that month, that month's
payment will not
count as one
of the required 120
qualifying payments.
Borrowers who
qualify and want to
count future rental income will also need six months» worth
of cash reserves in the bank — that's six months»
of full mortgage
payments, including taxes, insurance and any homeowners association dues.
Payments made under any
of the four IDR plans will
count as a
qualifying payment to put you on the road to student loan forgiveness.
They told me I had made 48
qualifying payments toward my loan forgiveness based on their «auto tally», and when the representative manually
counted up all
of my
qualifying payments, it totaled 58.
Rather than fulfill its responsibilities to these borrowers, FedLoan Servicing has instead prevented student borrowers from making
qualifying monthly
payments that
count towards loan forgiveness, shifting the consequences
of its loan servicing failures onto the student borrowers themselves.
Lump sum
payments made by the Department
of Defense towards eligible loans may
count in certain circumstances, for up to 12
qualifying payments per year.
While
payments under other types
of Direct Loan plans, like the 10 - year Standard Repayment Plan, do
qualify and
count toward your 120
payments, you'll want to switch to an income - driven plan as soon as possible — because if you stick with a standard 10 - year repayment, you'll have paid off your loan in full after 10 years with nothing left to be forgiven under PSLF.
In other words, all
of the
qualifying payments I did make to other loan holders are not being
counted for me.
Even though you and your employee already know whether the employment for your organization
qualifies, an updated ECF is the only way for an employee to be sure that all
of the
payments made over the course
of the last year
of employment
count toward PSLF.
View the number
of qualifying payments counted toward forgiveness online anytime under View Loan Details.