The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published information in the Federal Register today that shows how screwed up student loan programs are. The data and facts released are enough to make you give up hope the student loan programs can ever be fixed. Indeed not fixed with one-time forgiveness. I will do my best to summarize …
For individuals struggling to repay their federal student loans and think the only repayment options are a Graduated Repayment Plan, Extended Repayment Plan, Revised Pay As You Earn, REPAYE, Pay As You Earn, PAYE, Income Based Repayment Plan, IBR, Income Contingent Repayment Plan, ICR, or Income Sensitive Repayment Plan. For Direct Loans there is also …
The Department of Education recently launched the much awaited new federal student loan income based repayment option REPAYE (Revised Pay As You Earn). They should have named it WTF. While the program gives some consumers additional options, it is a complete miss for those wanting to get beneficial relief, especially if they are married or …
By Bob Preston The President and the United States Department of Education has just unwrapped a gift for every college student who ever took out loans to get an education – But beware! Sometimes the gift wrapping is much more attractive than the present. This one should be opened with extreme care, or as I …