Sentences with phrase «under partial financial hardship»

And get this; once you qualify, you may continue to make payments under PAYE, even if you are no longer under a partial financial hardship.

Not exact matches

You've got a partial financial hardship id your annual federal student loan payments calculated under a ten - year standard repayment plan are greater than 15 % of the difference between your adjusted gross income (and that of a spouse, if you're married and file taxes jointly) and 150 % of the poverty guideline for your family size and state.

Once it's determined that you have a partial financial hardship, your monthly student loan payment under IBR is capped at 15 % of adjusted gross income above 150 % of the Department of Health and Human Services» (HHS) poverty guideline.

For these borrowers, PAYE and the IBR offer very similar terms, though PAYE is slightly more borrower - friendly for two reasons: (1) if a borrower no longer has a partial financial hardship, all outstanding interest is capitalized under IBR but the amount of interest capitalized is capped under PAYE; (2) borrowers in IBR who wish to change to another repayment plan must jump through a procedural hoop of spending at least one month in the standard repayment plan before switching to their desired plan, and borrowers in PAYE face no such switching hurdle.

According to Equal Justice Works, a partial financial hardship «exists when the annual amount due on all of a borrower's eligible loans, as calculated under a standard 10 year repayment plan, exceeds 15 percent of discretionary income.»

Your eligibility depends on whether or not you have loans under the Federal Direct Loan Program, whether or not you are considered a «new borrower» (for the purposes of this program, a «new borrower» is defined as someone who both did not owe any money on any federal student loans as of October 1, 2007, and also received a disbursement of a Direct Loan on or after October 1, 2011), and being able to demonstrate partial financial hardship.

If the monthly amount you would be required to pay on your eligible federal student loans under a 10 - year Standard Repayment Plan is higher than the monthly amount you would be required to repay under Pay As You Earn, you have a partial financial hardship.

If this amount is higher then what you and your spouse would be required to pay under IBR, you two are considered to have a partial financial hardship.

According to Equal Justice Works, a partial financial hardship «exists when the annual amount due on all of a borrower's eligible loans, as calculated under a standard 10 year repayment plan, exceeds 15 percent of discretionary income.»