Not exact matches
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.
Here's why: If you are in repayment on the 10 - year Standard Repayment Plan during the entire time you are working
toward PSLF, you will
have no remaining balance left to forgive after you
have made 120
qualifying PSLF
payments.
If you're
making payments under an income - driven repayment plan and also working
toward loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program, you may
qualify for forgiveness of any remaining loan balance after you
've made 10 years of
qualifying payments, instead of 20 or 25 years.
If borrowers
have made payments that are equal to what they
would have paid in a
qualified repayment plan, those
payments will be credited
toward loan forgiveness.
But more than 250,000 of those borrowers
had not
made one
qualifying monthly loan
payment toward the 120 required to
have their loans forgiven, according to an Education Department presentation at a conference last year.
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.
If you
qualify for low - income certification according to the IRS guidelines, then you will not
have to pay the Offer in Compromise application fee, and you may not
have to
make a
payment toward your tax debt while the IRS is in the process of considering your application.
According to the CFPB,
Qualified Mortgages can not
have loan terms longer than 30 years and can not involve negative amortization, a situation in which the amount owed increases because a borrower is only
making payments toward the principal and not
toward interest.2 They also can not include balloon
payments, which are bigger
payments made when a loan is reaching its end, or a period in which the borrower is exclusively paying interest rather than contributing
payments toward the principal.
If you're
making payments under an income - driven repayment plan and also working
toward loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program, you may
qualify for forgiveness of any remaining loan balance after you
've made 10 years of
qualifying payments, instead of 20 or 25 years.
I was recently told that I
make too much money to
qualify for the program (I
have yet to find the income cap requirements for this program on the US Department of Education's website) and they recently told that I signed up for the wrong income repayment plan, I needed to sign up for a «standard» plan, which
would increase my monthly
payments from $ 502.00 to over $ 1,000.00 and start the 160
payment requirement all over again (according to the original guidance, I
have made 88
payments toward the 160)!
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.