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I don’t qualify, but I’m thrilled af that some people do. See that, conservatives? I’m happy for other people even if I’m not able to take part.
I also don’t qualify, and I’m saddled with $60k of student debt for the foreseeable future with very little idea of how to ever change that depressing fact, but sure, congrats to those who do qualify! Sucks to suck for us, eh
Sure, but some progress is better than nothing. It doesn't mean we stop fighting, but it does mean that things will start to get better for some.
We just need to make sure to fight just as hard for even more.
I feel you. 🫂
44k over here, down from 60. Also, SAVE raised my payments considerably since it’s still measuring on 10% of disposable income. It may save me money once it goes to the 5%, but I’m hoping to have a job that gives me a 40k raise by then so it may be moot for me.
But I’m super happy these folks are getting it and that Biden is making progress on this front.
How's disposable income calculated? Also, once you have your raise, I assume that while you payment might be at a similar level, your take home would still have increased?
Discretionary income is actually the correct term, I mis-typed when I said disposable.
And it’s anything over 225% of the poverty level in the state you live in. In my case, anything over $33,885 is considered discretionary. Last year my gross comp was $110k, so the payments were 10% of 76,115, which shakes out to about $630/month. I’m looking for work in the 120-140k range, at which point I’ll just be dumping gobs of my money into my student loan to get it paid off in a few years and be done with it.
I’m not desperate for forgiveness by any means, but life would have been much easier without these payments up until now. The 3 year hiatus gave me the opportunity to get ahead in so many things, including being positioned to buy a house a year and a half ago after a small bit of help from my (now ex) wife’s rich aunt/uncle. The gift wasn’t enough, but it got us over the hump after we were able to save all that money we were putting into the student loans.
Why tf did you take out a 60k loan on a career that won't be able to pay it back? I paid cash for college by going to a cheap community college part-time while working full-time and now I'm making 6 figures with no debt. It's not rocket science.
Rocket science is a pretty high bar for kids just out of high school. There's a lot of space underneath to fit into.
They never said it wouldn’t pay it back. But 60k is a lot, and it’s going to take many years. We don’t know their financial situation, and it may have changed recently. The job market for some people is pretty volatile right now. If they are a software developer right out of college, now is a terrible time. They would be fighting for jobs alongside laid off veterans who will work for less than usual. They’re fucked.
Someone gave me double that amount when I was 17 because I had a co-signer (my death-bed grandmother). That’s really the problem. Education costs too much and I was told, “if you don’t go to college, you won’t get a good job, and you’ll be poor all your life,” by every teacher, guidance counselor, TV show, and random person on the street. I wasn’t old enough to make decisions like that.
I’ve had it up to here with your woke agenda.
same. i only left college with about 8.5k in debt, but i want to see more people not saddled with paying fees and actually put the money into the market instead of into someones. wallets which will likely just sit there being unused because some sycophant wants more of it.