The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 created the PSLF program for
federal loan borrowers who work in public service and make 120 on - time qualifying payments.
In her memo, DeVos cited the need to provide «high - quality customer service to
federal loan borrowers in a cost - efficient and effective manner.»
The Avoiding Student Loan Scams webinar took place on Thursday, Nov. 30, from 2 — 3 p.m. Eastern time: Federal Student Aid and the Federal Trade Commission focused on what
action federal loan borrowers can take if contacted by debt relief companies.
In the 2015 report, the Student Loan Ombudsman focused on the alleged failure of servicers to help private and
federal loan borrowers enroll or remain enrolled in income - based repayment plans.
This revamped option will cap your monthly payments at 10 % of your discretionary income, and will be available to all undergraduate and
graduate federal loan borrowers regardless of when the money was borrowed.
Federal loan borrowers whose bills are more than 10 % of discretionary income; who were new direct loan borrowers on or after Oct. 1, 2007; and who took out another direct loan on or after Oct. 1, 2011.
Other types
of federal loans a borrower might have include the Parent PLUS loan, which is aimed at helping parents; the Perkins loan; and the graduate PLUS loan, which is designed to assist graduate students.
Federal loan borrowers whose bills are more than 10 % of discretionary income, and who started borrowing money for school after July 1, 2014.
Federal loan borrowers can consolidate their student loans and apply for an income - driven repayment plan (IDR).
There is no indication if repayment cap applies to
federal loan borrowers or for income - driven repayment.
For
federal loan borrowers, sometimes when you took out your loans could be the deciding factor in whether or not private refinancing is a good option for you.
If you are
a federal loan borrower with high stable income and look forward to increasing that income over the next decade, moving the federal loans into a private consolidation to achieve a lower rate just makes sense.
President Barack Obama has proposed expanding eligibility to
all federal loan borrowers but that option will probably not be available until late 2015.
Federal loan borrowers whose bills are more than 10 % of discretionary income, and who started borrowing money for school after July 1, 2014.
Federal loan borrowers whose bills are more than 10 % of discretionary income; who were new direct loan borrowers on or after Oct. 1, 2007; and who took out another direct loan on or after Oct. 1, 2011.
The Department of Education is working on a process that would let
some federal loan borrowers ask for loan forgiveness.
The Department of Education has a process that allows
some federal loan borrowers ask for loan forgiveness.
Currently,
all federal loan borrowers other than Parent PLUS and Perkins borrowers are eligible for the traditional income - based repayment plan that caps payments at 15 percent of their discretionary income and forgives any balance remaining after 25 years.
Trump's plan would involve increasing the mandated payment amount from 10 percent to 12.5 percent of
a federal loan borrower's yearly income, a 2.5 - percent increase that will make your monthly student loan payments higher — and that's not taking interest rates into account.