The U.S. Department of Education offers eligible students at participating
schools Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans.
Not exact matches
As we detailed in Part 2,
direct unsubsidized
loans to undergraduates carry the same low rate as
subsidized loans, but interest starts piling up as soon as you take the
loan out — while you're still in
school, in other words.
Once you move on to graduate
school, you're no longer eligible for
direct subsidized loans, regardless of your financial need.
Under the Teacher
Loan Forgiveness Program, if you teach full - time for five complete and consecutive academic years in a low - income
school or educational service agency, and meet other qualifications, you may be eligible for forgiveness of up to $ 17,500 on your
Direct Subsidized and Unsubsidized
Loans and your
Subsidized and Unsubsidized Federal Stafford
Loans.
The Teacher
Loan Forgiveness Program is another option that will forgive up to $ 17,500 of your
Direct or FFEL
Subsidized or Unsubsidized
Loans — after you teach for five years at a qualifying
school.
So if a
school's total cost of attendance is $ 20,000 and your EFC is $ 4,000, you qualify for up to $ 16,000 of need - based aid via programs like the federal Pell Grant, Perkins and
direct subsidized loans and the work - study program.
Direct Subsidized loans that are in deferment while a student is still attending
school accrue interest, but this is paid by the federal government, making them more affordable for borrowers who have a financial need.
The Title IV programs administered by the University of San Diego
School of Law are: Federal
Direct Loans (Subsidized and / or Non-subsidized), Federal Direct Graduate PLUS loans, and Federal Work S
Loans (
Subsidized and / or Non-
subsidized), Federal
Direct Graduate PLUS
loans, and Federal Work S
loans, and Federal Work Study.
Although you could voluntarily make payments on your new
Direct Subsidized Loans and
Direct Unsubsidized
Loans while you are in
school or during your grace period, those payments wouldn't count toward PSLF.
Any new
Direct Subsidized Loans or
Direct Unsubsidized
Loans you receive won't enter repayment until the end of the six - month grace period after you leave
school.
Government will pay the interest on
Direct Subsidized Loans while you are in
school on at least a half - time basis or on authorized deferment
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After you have proven that you need financial assistance in paying for your tuition, the U.S. Department of Education will pay the interest on your
Direct Subsidized Loans while you are enrolled in
school, as long as you are attending at least half - time.
This makes the
Direct Unsubsidized
Loan more expensive than the
Direct Subsidized Loan, especially during long periods of in -
school deferment.
However, they differ from
Direct Subsidized Loans in that interest that accrues while the student is enrolled in
school remains the responsibility of the student and is capitalized and added to the principal amount of the
loan when the student enters repayment.
As we detailed in Part 2,
direct unsubsidized
loans to undergraduates carry the same low rate as
subsidized loans, but interest starts piling up as soon as you take the
loan out — while you're still in
school, in other words.
For
subsidized direct loans, The U.S. Department of Education generally pays interest while the student is in
school and during certain other periods.
Direct subsidized loans typically have slightly better terms to help students with financial need while they were in
school, as students do pay interest while attending college at least part time (6 credits).
Direct subsidized loans, or
subsidized Stafford
loans, are available in different amounts depending on what year you are in
school.
Interest is charged on both
loans while you're in
school, The Department of Education pays the interest on the
Direct Subsidized Loan, while you're in
school at least halftime and for the first six months after you graduate
school.
The annual federal
loan limits for
Direct Subsidized and Unsubsidized
loans also vary by year in
school.
Direct Subsidized Loans - given to students who show financial need for covering college or career
school costs
Under this program, if you teach full - time for five complete and consecutive academic years in certain elementary and secondary
schools and educational service agencies that serve low - income families, and meet other qualifications, you may be eligible for forgiveness of up to a combined total of $ 17,500 on your
Direct Subsidized and Unsubsidized
Loans and your
Subsidized and Unsubsidized Federal Stafford
Loans.
To qualify for the REPAYE program, you must either have a
Direct Loan — meaning that it came directly from the U.S. Government under the
Direct Loan Program as opposed to Perkins
Loans (where the
school is the lender) or
subsidized or unsubsidized Stafford
Loans.
This generally only applies to borrowers of
direct unsubsidized
loans and graduate PLUS
loans, as the Education Department pays the interest on
subsidized student
loans while the borrower is in
school, grace period or deferment, and parent PLUS borrowers generally enter repayment once the
loan is disbursed.
Unless you have a
direct subsidized undergraduate
loan, you will be responsible for paying the interest your
loan accrues while you are enrolled in
school at least half - time, in your grace period (the time between leaving
school and entering repayment) or in deferment.
Your student will still be eligible to apply for
Direct unsubsidized and
subsidized loans to pay for
school.
Table assumes borrower with $ 26,946 in
direct subsidized federal student
loans at 4.3 percent interest, $ 40,000 in unsubsidized
direct federal graduate
school loans at 5.8 percent, and $ 40,000 in adjusted gross income.
Direct unsubsidized
loans are similar to their
subsidized cousins, except that the government doesn't pay interest while you're in
school; instead, the interest accumulates and is capitalized with the total
loan amount.
In making the calculation, it is important to note that an interest rate that is lower than the repayment period rate applies to most
subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford
loans in the FFEL and
Direct Loan programs during the in -
school, grace, and deferment periods.
First take any
subsidized or
direct federal
loans that a
school may offer based on student's financial need.
Direct Subsidized Loans are only available to undergraduate students, and only if their
school determines they have a financial need based on the
school's cost of attendance and their expected family contribution.
At UCSB, financial aid in the form of federal work - study and federal
subsidized and unsubsidized
direct loans are handled by the UCSB Financial Aid office, not by individual units, such as the Bren
School.