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angrychair

(8,874 posts)
Wed May 22, 2024, 01:43 PM May 22

Got Some Good News

I'm cautiously reserved as to what this actually means but I did get a letter from Dept of Education about them processing my student loan forgiveness.
They will send something to my loan servicer on June 5th and the loan servicer will then start the process to forgive "some or all of my loans" is the key phrase. The
Despite paying, off and on, for years I still owe more than I actually borrowed, it currently sits at $116,000.
Hopefully it's the remaining balance or at least a good chunk of it.
I'll know more after June 5th. Wish me luck 😊

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Got Some Good News (Original Post) angrychair May 22 OP
Good luck! Walleye May 22 #1
Income based repayment Johnny2X2X May 22 #2
Good luck, if they forgive the entire amount KS Toronado May 22 #3
LOL angrychair May 22 #15
Hehe, now I can't stop hearing Layne Staley singing "Sitting in a Happy Chair" steelyboo May 23 #21
I wish you luck! PatSeg May 22 #4
Good luck! Goddessartist May 22 #5
Excellent!!! Please keep us posted! calimary May 22 #6
$100,000 at least! peppertree May 22 #7
Best of luck but we expect you to trade the market and pay billions in taxes. bucolic_frolic May 22 #8
wishing you all the luck you can possibly have orleans May 22 #9
Wishing you incalculable amounts of good luck with this. DFW May 22 #10
That's great! Now, remember which party FailureToCommunicate May 22 #11
Good luck! lindalou65 May 22 #12
Here's hoping for you and so many others who have been screwed by this system rurallib May 22 #13
Royally Screwed..............NC DENVERPOPS May 22 #17
Hope. It works out malaise May 22 #14
Good luck LostinRed May 22 #16
Great news! I have fingers crossed for you! peacebuzzard May 22 #18
Good luck Duncanpup May 23 #19
I must have been fortunate. LiberalFighter May 23 #20

Johnny2X2X

(19,699 posts)
2. Income based repayment
Wed May 22, 2024, 01:57 PM
May 22

If you don't get a good amount forgiven, the income based plans right now are game changers for most borrowers.

angrychair

(8,874 posts)
15. LOL
Wed May 22, 2024, 05:59 PM
May 22

if they forgive all of my loans I will change my handle to "happychair"
(Though the name actually comes from a song by the band Alice in Chains. I'm not actually angry all the time😊 )

calimary

(82,027 posts)
6. Excellent!!! Please keep us posted!
Wed May 22, 2024, 02:28 PM
May 22

Seems to me it’s just highway robbery when folks like you somehow wind up owing more, sometimes WAY more, than what was originally borrowed.

bucolic_frolic

(44,100 posts)
8. Best of luck but we expect you to trade the market and pay billions in taxes.
Wed May 22, 2024, 02:41 PM
May 22

So don't let it go to your head, and don't spend it all in the same place.

DFW

(54,918 posts)
10. Wishing you incalculable amounts of good luck with this.
Wed May 22, 2024, 03:30 PM
May 22

Debts are one of the few things that frighten the living crap out of me, and I have avoided them like the plague all my life, no matter WHAT I gave up in the process.

Hanging over me like a black cloud on an otherwise sunny day, I could never fully relax or feel at ease with a large debt hanging over my head, especially one greater than whatever cash I could spare. I REALLY hope you manage to be rid of this!

lindalou65

(258 posts)
12. Good luck!
Wed May 22, 2024, 04:43 PM
May 22

I hope at least a good chunk of your loan will be paid off. I have a student loan too but I owe about $24,000 and at least I don't owe more than I borrowed. Good luck!!

LostinRed

(841 posts)
16. Good luck
Wed May 22, 2024, 08:36 PM
May 22

I hope it works out and the entire thing gets wiped. I know the burden of large student debt. I refinanced mine when Obama signed the law taking my loans from 6.5% to 2.5% and that was a huge relief really saved me so much. I was fortunate to be able to pay all mine back.

LiberalFighter

(52,161 posts)
20. I must have been fortunate.
Thu May 23, 2024, 10:28 AM
May 23

Had my loans in the early 70s. Got mine paid off about 1983.

Those student loans now seem to be a scam. But it doesn't help tuition is much higher now.

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