In 2020 I voted against Trump, in 2024 I'm voting for Biden.
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$9 billion for 125k borrowers is $72000 per borrower
Would be nice if they would vanish the 40k in loans I have that I've been paying on since the Obama years. I've paid in far beyond the total amount I ever borrowed, while the compound interest just added it all back over the years. Progress has been very slow for me to pay that off, started payments with about 50k loans, after being ballooned up from the original principal from several years of economic hardship forbearance where the interest still gets capitalized.
You should look into the Income Driven Repayment plan: https://studentaid.gov/idr/
It's one of the new major programs from the Department of Education and can help a lot with reducing repayments while eventually being eligible for full forgiveness.
Just cap the interest rate, my man. That would solve the entire problem.
Just cap the interest rate
at zero. If the loan is risk free it shouldn't be profitable, to do anything else is to funnel public money into the banks.
At 0% interest, no bank would offer loans, because it would literally just be them losing money managing loans they make nothing from.
Zero percent and govt covers operating costs with a stipend per loan. Granted figuring out the rate to pay would be a task, and keeping that from being a gouge itself... but better than passing it along to borrowers.
That requires legislation and we do not currently have a House that can even consider legislation
Biden had a really good plan. Zero interest as long as you pay at least something, and the payment being as low as $1 with a sliding scale based on income.
It's more fair than just forgiveness to people without loans since the debt isn't eliminated. I'm personally fine with eliminating the debt to have a more educated society, but a lot of people aren't, and that's a good middle ground.
According to a White House fact sheet, the new measures include:
- $5.2 billion in additional debt relief for 53,000 borrowers under Public Service Loan Forgiveness programs
- nearly $2.8 billion in new debt relief for nearly 51,000 borrowers through fixes to "income-driven repayment," which the White House says are borrowers who made 20 years or more of payments "but never got the relief they were entitled to."
- And $1.2 billion for nearly 22,000 borrowers who have a disability who have been identified and approved for discharge through a data match with the Social Security Administration.
Finally a bailout that is for the people! You da man Biden!! Yeeyee!!
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