You can decline an in - school deferment on your loans that are in repayment status and
make qualifying payments on those loans while you are in school.
This plan only works if you make 120
qualifying payments under one of the previously mentioned qualifying federal student loan repayment plans.
Those who work in a public service job for at least 10 years and have made at least 120
qualifying payments towards their student loans may be eligible.
You may qualify for the remaining balance of your Direct Loans to be paid off after 120
qualifying payments while working full - time for the government or a non-profit.
Additionally, if you received an up - front interest rebate, and you have not made the on -
time qualifying payments to earn the rebate, the rebate may be lost.
For instance, the public service loan forgiveness program requires you to make 120
qualifying payments before the loan is forgiven.
As drafted, the legislation would provide those carriage operators
who qualify payments to obtain green taxi licenses.
The 120
qualifying payments do not have to be consecutive - an example would be if you were at one point working for an organization that was not considered a qualifying employer.
The latter will not receive forgiveness or
accrue qualifying payments, but your payments under the program will count for your Direct Loans.
Each payment is counted individually to add up to 120, so once you're done with bonding time, you can have
qualifying payments again.
This includes, in the case of loan rehabilitation, both collection costs on the initial and
subsequent qualifying payments and collection costs upon the ultimate sale or assignment of the loan.
Still, you can keep in mind that any debt after making
qualified payments for 25 years is eligible for forgiveness.
In order to receive public service loan forgiveness, you must be employed full - time in a public service job and have made 120
qualifying payments while employed by a qualifying employer.
Additionally, if you received an up - front interest rebate, and you have not made the on -
time qualifying payments to earn the rebate, the rebate may be lost.
Payments made in an IBR, ICR or PAYE repayment count
as qualifying payments for those who work in the public sector and would like to apply for public service loan forgiveness, which is different than Obama Student Loan Forgiveness.
For example, if you were employed full - time by a qualifying employer when each of the required 120 payments was made, but your spouse never worked for a qualifying employer or worked for a qualifying employer only when some of the payments were made, the amount forgiven after the
120th qualifying payment would be the remaining balance of the loan attributable to the loans you originally received that were paid off by the joint consolidation loan.
Note: You will not receive credit for a PSLF
qualifying payment if you request and receive a disaster forbearance (or any other deferment or forbearance) during the 30 - day period or make a payment more than 20 days after the due date.
If you're paying your current loans under an income - driven repayment plan, or if you've made
qualifying payments toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness, consolidating your current loans will cause you to lose credit for any payments made toward income - driven repayment plan forgiveness or Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
What if I make my
last qualifying payment while working for a qualifying employer, but then leave that job to work for a for - profit corporation before applying for the PSLF benefit.
For example, if you have a period of employment with a nonqualifying employer, you will not lose credit for
prior qualifying payments you made.
Once you've made your final payment toward the 120
qualifying payments required for PSLF, you must fill out the PSLF Application for Forgiveness to receive loan forgiveness.
Because you have to make 120 qualifying monthly payments, it will be at least 10 years after you make your
first qualifying payment before you can apply for PSLF.
As you know, 10 years of
qualifying payments results in my loans being paid - off (supposedly) in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
Even worse than miscalculated payments is that you could find out you haven't been making
qualifying payments at all.