- Just a heads up, there is a free application for student loan income based repayment plans, and watch out for "document prep services", they're basically a scam https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/income-driven 69 comments personalfinance
Linking pages
- Student loans are debtors prisons with no exit, not even bankruptcy https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/05/student-loans-crisis-allow-bankruptcy-investigate-abuses-column/640460002/ 643 comments
- Student Debt in America: Lend With a Smile, Collect With a Fist - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/upshot/student-debt-in-america-lend-with-a-smile-collect-with-a-fist.html 73 comments
- What Could Happen If The Government Wiped Out Student Debt? : NPR https://www.npr.org/2019/07/10/738506646/student-debt-forgiveness-sounds-good-what-might-happen-if-the-government-did-it 57 comments
- What Betsy DeVos wants to do to your student loans http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/21/pf/college/trump-student-loans-betsy-devos/index.html 18 comments
- Student Loan Servicer Steered Some Borrowers To Higher-Cost Plans, Government Says : NPR https://www.npr.org/2018/11/21/670039878/student-loan-servicer-steered-some-borrowers-to-higher-cost-plans-government-say 10 comments
- Another Way Student Debt Keeps People from Buying Homes - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/07/another-way-student-debt-keeps-people-from-buying-homes/564860/ 8 comments
- These 9 Charts Show America's Coming Student Loan Apocalypse | HuffPost Latest News http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20/student-debt-distress_n_5682736.html?amp%3Bncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067 5 comments
- Why college grads need a playbook for paying back loans http://www.freep.com/story/money/personal-finance/susan-tompor/2016/05/04/why-college-grads-need-playbook-paying-back-loans/83647236/ 4 comments
- Trump's student loan payment plan looks a lot like Obama's http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/14/pf/college/trump-student-debt-plan/index.html?sr=twcnn101416college1250pmstory 4 comments
- Does Personal Finance Still Work in Our Changing Economy? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/smarter-living/does-personal-finance-still-work-in-our-changing-economy.html 1 comment
- 6 Tips for Avoiding the Worst Student Loan Repayment Traps - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/your-money/6-tips-for-avoiding-the-worst-student-loan-repayment-traps.html 0 comments
- Removing the Tax Consequences of Student Loan Discharge | The Regulatory Review https://www.theregreview.org/2017/06/13/wiebold-removing-tax-student-loan/ 0 comments
- How The Heck Do You Pay Off Your College Loans? : NPR Ed : NPR http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/12/18/455805235/how-the-heck-do-you-pay-off-your-college-loans 0 comments
- Panicked Borrowers, and the Education Department’s Unsettling Silence - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/your-money/student-loans/panicked-borrowers-and-the-education-departments-unsettling-silence.html?_r=0&em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20170407&nl=dealbook&nl_art=2&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1 0 comments
- In Navient Lawsuits, Unsettling Echoes of Past Lending Crisis - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/business/dealbook/navient-loans-lawsuit.html?WT.nav=bottom-well&action=click&hpw=&module=well-region&pgtype=Homepage®ion=bottom-well&rref=education 0 comments
- My bank erased my $60,000 student loan | Student finance | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jan/29/my-bank-erased-my-60000-student-loan 0 comments