As someone who paid off student debts as quickly as possible 10+ years ago…am I supposed to feel a great sense of unfairness? Because I don’t 🤷
I mean I do. I’m not gonna lie about it. It would be prettttty sweet if I could have the depressingly gross amount of money I dumped into paying off my loans. But I also have no problem whatsoever with this move. I’m all for it. This whole “things sucked for me so it must suck for you too” thing I’ve seen too much of recently is exhausting as hell.
We can improve. It may not be super fair or feel great to those who already got screwed over by things in the past but that certainly doesn’t mean we can’t fix things so future people aren’t screwed in the same way.
Same. I don’t feel unfairness when they help students. I feel unfairness when they give tax breaks to corps and billionaires.
No! Any less suffering deprives the young of their birthright. We must ensure the heritage of adversity is preserved!
For who, though?! I keep seeing articles about this latest round of student loan debt forgiveness, but so far I’ve seen nothing about who this round applies to. Who qualifies and how?
People on the SAVE repayment plan qualify. Not sure if you have to take any action beyond that
I’m on that already at least. I did see that it’s expected to take a while for it to apply since legal challenges are expected, so whoever it applies to I guess it’s mostly a waiting game for now.
Hell yeah. Congrats to the folks who have one less burden to carry!
Do we need to do anything to receive the credit? Is it income based, and if so, is it retroactive? I’ve been a broke ass for most of my life, but I’m finally after an entire career’s worth of busting my ass making pretty good money. I’d be pretty bummed out if I didn’t receive assistance just because it took a long time to push this through.
The press release makes it sound like you don’t need to take any action if you’re still enrolled in the SAVE plan. With other debt cancellations, they sent people letters saying that their debt is now discharged.
Edit: nvm, I found it. People can register here:
https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/save-plan
Edit 2: it’s income driven based on your current income. Well that sucks for people like me who scratched and clawed their way up the ladder for two decades.
Is the save plan the original registration? I wasn’t able to register for that. They shut registration down by the time I heard of it.Sorry, but a bunch of right-wing judges prevented Biden from doing a blanket forgiveness of the sort which would likely have covered you.
Just be happy that others don’t have to deal with the same issues you did.
Yeah, I’m glad some people will receive assistance.
It doesn’t make up for Gaza, but it’s good news
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The Government of the United States of American is not a parliamentary system, where a party with a majority can do pretty much whatever the prime minister wants.
Instead, the US government is designed to distribute power, with each house of congress, the President, and the Courts, each having significant power to block change. This is an example of that — actually getting the kind of change we need is going to mean sustained Democratic supermajorities for multiple election cycles.
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the alternative is a bit worse
Because he’s not a “bit” worse.
just go and vote for the lesser evil if you will.
Sane people will , yes.
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You should go outside and get some air
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Yeah fuck him for actually trying to do something.
That objectively is progress.
FTFY
I wonder what it is that you imagine has to happen to get the other 1.616 T cancelled.
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How do you eat a whole elephant?
One bite at a time.
So then don’t even try?
He tried doing a single big plan which would have done much more. The Republicans on the Supreme Court blocked it
He did try to wipe it all out but the Republicans stopped him. Just be happy he’s able to wipe a few billion here and there. Meanwhile Mr. 91 indictments only help those with money.
Its a fucking huge amount of forgiveness, and has been life changing for millions of Americans.
But besides wiping debt outright, they also made tons of changes to the loan repayment system. How about doubling the minimum income before you have to pay anything on your loan from 16k to 32k? How about freezing any interest if you are paying on your loan? How about letting anyone delinquent true up instantly just by enrolling? How about letting spouses who are married but file separately maintain income based based payment even if the household income is to high? How about actually forgoving loans after the 10 years in the public service program, instead of “just not doing it” for 4 years like the trump admin did? How about forgiving 1k/yr of loans after 10 years even if you dont qualify for the public service forgiveness program? What about forgiving any undergrad loan after 20 years of payments, no matter the amount paid, that takes into account past payments?
They have made paying back the loans much, much less painful for the people that haven’t had their loans outright forgiven, often dropping payment amounts by half and making everything about the process less brutal.
That is indeed, “objectively much.”