Not exact matches
Adding years to your
repayment plan can result in a lower student loan bill.
Over the life of your student loans, this can
add up to hundreds of dollars saved in interest and it will shave months or
years off of your
repayment plan.
Even when students pay back their loans on a standard, 10 -
year repayment plan, the interest does
add up.
You were
planning on making a student loan
repayment every month on time, but when you start dividing what you borrowed by 10
years, and then 12 months and
adding interest and compounding interest, the math does not compute.
A Harvard Law grad with no scholarships will owe between $ 297,548 and $ 322,348, which works out to a total
repayment of between $ 400,000 on a 10 -
year plan and $ 550,000 on a 20 -
year plan once you
add interest.
Government employees in select career fields also have an
added incentive to enroll in income
repayment plans, as their remaining loan balance is forgiven after 10
years instead of 20
years.
According to the Society for Human Resource Management, around 3 percent of employers currently offer some sort of student loan
repayment assistance program and many more employers are
planning to
add the perk in the coming
years.