Starting next month, borrowers enrolled in SAVE who took out less than $12,000 in loans and have been in repayment for 10 years will get their remaining student debt cancelled immediately.
Starting next month, borrowers enrolled in SAVE who took out less than $12,000 in loans and have been in repayment for 10 years will get their remaining student debt cancelled immediately.
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.