Each loan forgiveness program requires years of on - time payments before loan balances are forgiven, so it is important for borrowers to weigh the pros and cons of career decisions in advance.
Choose a Repayment Plan Most of the student
loan forgiveness programs require you be enrolled under a student loan repayment plan.
Not exact matches
(
Loan forgiveness programs usually
require a very long - term commitment, and that scares me, because who am I to know what life can bring.)
If you're an AmeriCorps
Program volunteer, a period of teaching that qualifies you for a benefit through the AmeriCorps
Program can not be counted toward the
required five consecutive years of teaching for the Teacher
Loan Forgiveness Program.
It's important to note that some student
loan forgiveness programs also
require you to be on the correct repayment plan to be eligible.
Those who have borrowed from the Federal Family Education
Loan Program, as an example, are
required to consolidate their
loans into a federal Direct Consolidation
Loan in order to qualify for some income - driven repayment plans, or for Public Student
Loan Forgiveness.
Payments for income - driven payment plans are set by federal law and, for most borrowers,
loan forgiveness is only available through
programs that
require many years of qualifying payments.
There are a few things to know about this
program, and several steps you would need to take to get potential
forgiveness on your federal
loans, we would love to discuss with you this possibility, the process is long and it
requires some paperwork and dealing with servicers who are not always very friendly, but with us, we do all the talking and dealing with them for you.
Programs like PSLF
require that you follow very particular guidelines — with PSLF you'll want to complete and submit the Employment Certification for Public Service
Loan Forgiveness form annually to verify that you're making qualifying payments.
The first
loan cancellations will not begin until October 2017 because the
required 120 payments = 10 years from the October 2007 creation of the public service
forgiveness program.
The recommendations relating to IBR,
loan forgiveness, creating two separate PLUS
loan programs, and limiting the amount parent PLUS borrowers may borrow would
require statutory changes.
The issue is, this
forgiveness program requires 120 consecutive documented on - time payments towards the
loan.
There's a Public Service Employee
Forgiveness Program I could be taking advantage of, but I'm afraid I may have already screwed myself out of that one (It
requires documentation of your employment, and ten years of on - time
loan payments, of which I haven't documented, have greatly reduced with my lump sum payments, and would be paid off by the time the 120 payments are made).
I am not eligible for any
forgiveness program (although I have already worked for state government longer that currently
required for forgivess — because the
program does not give older individuals credit for work already performed before consolidation into the right type of
loan and before 2007).
All participating counselors will be
required to complete specialized training that covers the complete inventory of student
loan programs associated with repayment, forbearance, or other
forgiveness options.