• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    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.”