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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | Turnburnsis - 2014-10-17 10:30 PM another way that student loans are forgiven is if you draw disability. And you know how many are disable-----------------yup! I have worked for a loan company and for a gov. program for people to build homes (which is awesome program if was ran right) but anyways I have seen this many many times! Usda only counts 1% of total due as a debt / income ratio even if it is deferred. and 99% of student loans are deferred.
Don't get me started on gov't house loans. My husband and I do not qualify for a USDA loan because we make to much money. We qualify for over $500k but we only plan on spending between $250--$300K for new construction. We may qualify but we know there is no way we will spend that much. Yet someone who makes $30K a year qualifies for all this stuff and had a higher chance of walking away on non-payment then us. It seems like we get penalized for making money and paying our bills. |
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Location: South | 3canstorun - 2014-10-18 8:15 AM I agree also that I would much prefer education getting money then system abusers. However the system is so screwed up on who gets forgiveness. Drs in our area get it, but not the nurses?
Student loans are needed because education is so high. But it is the financial counselors at the schools giving these students all the money they are available for. Way more then they need. Then when they graduate they are stuck paying it back. Finance 101 should be taught in the school system from 7th grade on.
Agreed, too many people are maxing out school loans just to live on so they don't have to work, then are shocked when they graduate.
That is an awful lot of money not to have to pay back-certainly hope she's mistaken because my sister went to a big time school and paid off 80k, and she is an inner city teacher.
I had a very hard time going back to school- made too much money to receive any loans but I didn't have enough money to pay up front every semester so I had to save... Yet a lot of my friends who had a child or were married got offered up to 5k a semester. |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | It really sucks when you get punished for being responsible but it's the responsible hard working people that pay for all of these socialistic programs. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | rodeoveteran - 2014-10-18 3:02 PM In the same vein, people walking away from mortgages when they over bought (oh, it was the bank's fault), and credit card debt. I was raised that if you bought something, you paid for it.....end of story. Free college tuition??!! With the way that many already throw away their parents hard earned money partying instead of studying?? Seriously. Just how much value will they put on education if it is free? Not what I want to be paying for. Make it merit based and/or on need then you might sway me a little.
My college degree was free--paid for by scholarships both from the public university and a private foundation. |
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| Don't borrow it if you can't pay it back. My son went to a high priced school in California. Graduated owing over 100K. He paid it all back in 3 years. Yes, he got a good job upon graduation but he also worked his a$$ off to get it and didn't go buy a new car and he didn't buy new clothes, etc. He never once thought someone else should pay his way. |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | permanent vacation - 2014-10-19 11:46 AM Don't borrow it if you can't pay it back. My son went to a high priced school in California. Graduated owing over 100K. He paid it all back in 3 years. Yes, he got a good job upon graduation but he also worked his a$$ off to get it and didn't go buy a new car and he didn't buy new clothes, etc. He never once thought someone else should pay his way.
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Location: on my horse | I'm a full time college student (secondary education major) that works overtime to pay my bills and my tuition and keep the horse that I paid 25 dollars for healthy and safe never mind the ability to compete during this time in my life... I went to a junior college and am done with absolutely no debt.
That being said I am now transferring to an in state university that I cannot afford even working overtime, not competing, and having sold all but one horse. I qualify for the teach grant and teacher loan forgiveness programs. Am I going to take it? YOU BET I AM. If someone like me who works over 50 hours a week at a good paying job 6 days a week and lives in a shack in the bad part of town and still can't cover the cost of tuition and rented text books, who can? My parents aren't putting me through school, I am. When I graduate I'll have a small to moderate amount of debt that I will begin to pay off, but I would be crazy to pass up a loan forgiveness program for teaching in an area of high need (which ironically is the entirety of my state minus one school district). You will NEVER hear me complain about the debt I'm about to accumulate, because that's a burden I'm choosing to take on but I would be crazy to turn down something to assist with removing debt.
I would be skeptical of your FB friend's situation, but my point here is keep in mind there are many students out there who have this option available and who take it and have a need for it even though they have done all they can to pay their own debts.
I would rather have my tax dollars go to helping get people out of school debt than just about anything else, at least they decided to get an education and try to put themselves in a position to not be a drain on society for life.
There are exceptions to every rule and people who abuse every system but that's just life. Rant/opinion over don't flame me please
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| So tell me how and why, in 1983, when my hamstring was severed in a severe horse accident (equine studies being what I went to college for), and I was fired because I couldn't work, ended up HOMELESS in a town I didn't know anyone in, and asked to have my student loans DEFERRED, with all the medical and legal paperwork needed, I was immediately put in DEFAULT???
My personal experience formed opinion is that everyone should have to pay back every penny borrowed. This issue kept me from being able to purchase anything on credit, and permanently lowered the top credit number I'll ever achieve. Even when, years later with help from my grandmother, we wrote and called for a payoff amount, was given an amount, paid it in full, two years after THAT when I went to try to buy a car there was still OUTSTANDING INTEREST that I had to clear before I could try to apply for credit!
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| Three 4 Luck - 2014-10-19 11:26 AM
rodeoveteran - 2014-10-18 3:02 PM In the same vein, people walking away from mortgages when they over bought (oh, it was the bank's fault), and credit card debt. I was raised that if you bought something, you paid for it.....end of story. Free college tuition??!! With the way that many already throw away their parents hard earned money partying instead of studying?? Seriously. Just how much value will they put on education if it is free? Not what I want to be paying for. Make it merit based and/or on need then you might sway me a little.
My college degree was free--paid for by scholarships both from the public university and a private foundation.
As I said, merit and need based, NOT free college tuition for all paid for by the taxpayers. This is what I am beginning to hear the demand for, and do not support. |
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| Don't worry about it. I have a feeling that she is going to have a RUDE awakening one day. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | rodeoveteran - 2014-10-19 3:20 PM Three 4 Luck - 2014-10-19 11:26 AM rodeoveteran - 2014-10-18 3:02 PM In the same vein, people walking away from mortgages when they over bought (oh, it was the bank's fault), and credit card debt. I was raised that if you bought something, you paid for it.....end of story. Free college tuition??!! With the way that many already throw away their parents hard earned money partying instead of studying?? Seriously. Just how much value will they put on education if it is free? Not what I want to be paying for. Make it merit based and/or on need then you might sway me a little. My college degree was free--paid for by scholarships both from the public university and a private foundation. As I said, merit and need based, NOT free college tuition for all paid for by the taxpayers. This is what I am beginning to hear the demand for, and do not support.
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| You don't have to have a degree to keep from being a drain on society. It's funny, but my DIL owes a small fortune, she has a masters.......and I work with guys who did not go to college that make triple what she does. I don't think you should borrow tons of money to get a degree. I doubt hers gets paid back. I don't have a problem with the forgivness programs if conditions are met.
Son's education was paid for by HIM, not us with scholarships and working. |
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| I work for one of the major student loan servicers for the Dept of Ed. What the original poster is saying could be absolutely true. However, her friend would have to qualify annually showing their income and family size. The only way the payment would stay the same every year is if the family size and income did not change. With Income Based Repayment programs there is forgiveness after 20 and 25 years (depending on the program) of making qualifying payments. Those payments can go as low as ZERO, yes ZERO dollars a month if your income, student loan debt, and family size meet the criteria.
The forgiveness part is really only going to work out for those families on a fixed or lower income and have larger family sizes.
Drs and law students think its a great thing when they graduate, because they aren't yet making their expected income so they would indeed get a low payment...for a while... eventually that will catch up to them when they are making their expected income as they would no longer qualify and have all the interest and principal to pay back.
Another way forgiveness will work out in the borrower's favor is if they work in Public Service. If you work in public service and make 10 years of qualifying payments (income based programs are the only way to go here beacuse they are drug out to 25 years rather than the standard 10) then the balance after 120 payments is forgiven provided you've submitted paperwork showing you've worked in Public Service for those 10 years. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | tuff5224 - 2014-10-20 7:23 AM
I work for one of the major student loan servicers for the Dept of Ed. What the original poster is saying could be absolutely true. However, her friend would have to qualify annually showing their income and family size. The only way the payment would stay the same every year is if the family size and income did not change. With Income Based Repayment programs there is forgiveness after 20 and 25 years (depending on the program) of making qualifying payments. Those payments can go as low as ZERO, yes ZERO dollars a month if your income, student loan debt, and family size meet the criteria.
The forgiveness part is really only going to work out for those families on a fixed or lower income and have larger family sizes.
Drs and law students think its a great thing when they graduate, because they aren't yet making their expected income so they would indeed get a low payment...for a while... eventually that will catch up to them when they are making their expected income as they would no longer qualify and have all the interest and principal to pay back.
Another way forgiveness will work out in the borrower's favor is if they work in Public Service. If you work in public service and make 10 years of qualifying payments (income based programs are the only way to go here beacuse they are drug out to 25 years rather than the standard 10) then the balance after 120 payments is forgiven provided you've submitted paperwork showing you've worked in Public Service for those 10 years.
This is me. I work in education and have Public Service Loan Forgiveness. My payments are based on my husband's and my income. They change every year after we do taxes, go up, down, etc. I will make 120 payments and then the rest will be forgiven. All that being said, you have to pay taxes on the amount that is forgiven. |
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| oija - 2014-10-20 9:33 AM
tuff5224 - 2014-10-20 7:23 AM
I work for one of the major student loan servicers for the Dept of Ed. What the original poster is saying could be absolutely true. However, her friend would have to qualify annually showing their income and family size. The only way the payment would stay the same every year is if the family size and income did not change. With Income Based Repayment programs there is forgiveness after 20 and 25 years (depending on the program) of making qualifying payments. Those payments can go as low as ZERO, yes ZERO dollars a month if your income, student loan debt, and family size meet the criteria.
The forgiveness part is really only going to work out for those families on a fixed or lower income and have larger family sizes.
Drs and law students think its a great thing when they graduate, because they aren't yet making their expected income so they would indeed get a low payment...for a while... eventually that will catch up to them when they are making their expected income as they would no longer qualify and have all the interest and principal to pay back.
Another way forgiveness will work out in the borrower's favor is if they work in Public Service. If you work in public service and make 10 years of qualifying payments (income based programs are the only way to go here beacuse they are drug out to 25 years rather than the standard 10) then the balance after 120 payments is forgiven provided you've submitted paperwork showing you've worked in Public Service for those 10 years.
This is me. I work in education and have Public Service Loan Forgiveness. My payments are based on my husband's and my income. They change every year after we do taxes, go up, down, etc. I will make 120 payments and then the rest will be forgiven. All that being said, you have to pay taxes on the amount that is forgiven.
you are exactly right! Thats a MAJOR point that people don't realize! When something is forgiven, you are still required to pay taxes on that amount!
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Location: South Central Florida | Of all the crazy stuff we give away and pay for, I truly don't mind paying off student loans. We paid for my kids college, we did pre paid for my son and pay as you go for my daughter. Both started at community colleges...it cost a bloody fortune. I don't know how kids do it with no help. Each semister, with books and fees was into $4K.
Paying for education is paying for the future, they will be business people, tax paying, income producing, hard working americans. I don't know how kids graduate wiht $150 or so in student loans...that actually makes me a little sick at my stomach.
Have a friend that just graduated from law school....I don't know what her student loans are, but she is a hard worker and received a lot of scholarships, was top of her class....okay one of the jobs she looked at for the DA's office...started at $32K a year. ARE YOU KIDDING? We live in a rural area, but Holy Cow.....
Don't get me started on college books....I think that's the biggest scam on the planet. I think MOST colleges are far over priced and practally out of the reach of the general public with out help.
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Location: Broxton, Ga | You borrow YOU pay back.........no I don't want to pay back your student loans.......... |
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| Now... when I say this... don't get all upset but you guys are all being very judgemental.
I will not deny there are many people who blow their student loan money and I am not say there shouldn't be some type of accountability.
here is my story...
I went to a community college and received my Associate Science in Paralegal. I graduated with a 3.8 GPA (darn math lol).
My 2 year transferred directly into a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice.. graduated with a 3.9 GPA.
I did not use any of the "extra" money I was given. I bought all my books out of pocket and I paid for my summer classes out of pocket. I went to school at night and worked during the day.
Yes I bought a new car because mine needed far too much work and with financing options I had the same monthly payment as a relatively used car.
I now work in dispatch which doesn't require a degree and applying for my dream job. I also volunteer on my days off through an agency related to my field of interest. I also need reliable transportation because I work very goofy hours.
So my point is, yes there are kids out there who blow their money. There are kids who don't take college seriously but for those who do... I think this forgiveness programs are the saving grace for some.
I qualify for one in another seven years because I am working in public service job.
If my tax money is going towards those who refuse to work, teens moms who get college for free, I think this is the least of our problems.
I am 25 and would like to buy a house but I cant because of my school loans. I pay them and I will pay them because I chose to make a life for myself but don't judge everyone based on the few bad apples. Some of us are literally living on dreams and spaghetti O's trying to find a place in this world.
I think there are much worse programs in this world that should be upsetting us. JMO |
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Location: Oklahoma | Like many of the people who have already commented, when I went to college, I paid for it. Not my parents. While I did work, to pay for rent and my horses, I took our loans to pay for books, tuition, ect. I made it all the way to my BS in animal science and then decided to do a complete 180 and go into law enforcment. Yes I will qualify for the public service forgivness after ten years. But I sure as heck don't have a $10 a month payment! lol. I overpay my loan every month. Its the responsible thing to do. |
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| Funny how some opinions change when they can benefit from it. I think you borrowed it you should pay it back. I went to school and paid for mine took me some time to pay it off. People don't realize it takes years sometimes for your schooling to payoff with getting the job you want or a better one.
Part of the whole problem so many get away with whatever and it continues, and the ones who are responsible are penalized for doing the right thing. |
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