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Financial Feminist

BONUS: Student Loan Forgiveness FAQ

Financial Feminist

Her First $100K

Self-improvement, Education, How To, Business

4.76.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On August 24th, 2022 President Biden announced his multi-layered plan to relieve student borrowers. In this episode, Tori Dunlap walks you through the basics of this plan, how it will affect the U.S. on a greater scale, and how to prepare for resumed payments on January 1st, 2023. We put together an extensive list of resources on our show notes page, including more information on student debt relief, the PSLF program, and more: https://herfirst100k.com/financial-feminist-show-notes/student-loan-forgiveness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, Paniachal feminists. Hello. Today is going to be a little different. We are going

0:15.6

to be quick and dirty today. We are giving you the student loan forgiveness, frequently

0:23.0

asked questions, answers. Everything you need to know about President Biden's recent

0:28.0

announcement about student debt forgiveness, about potentially future student debt forgiveness.

0:32.6

We're going to answer every question that we can today in a very short actionable episode.

0:38.9

We are literally recording this the day before it comes out. And we're doing this because

0:42.7

we know this info is valuable. We know it's important. And share it with your friends.

0:46.6

Share it with your peeps because I want every single person who qualifies for student debt

0:51.4

forgiveness to get it. Okay, let's dive right in immediately. So student loan forgiveness

0:57.5

was announced yesterday by President Biden for anyone making less than $125,000 a year

1:06.2

or $250,000 for a married couple up to $10,000 of debt will be canceled. If you are a

1:13.4

Pell Grant recipient that goes up to $20,000. So again, $10,000 in student debt cancellation

1:21.1

to non-pell grant recipients making less than $125,000. If you are a Pell Grant recipient

1:26.8

that goes up to $20,000. In addition, President Biden announced that the pause on federal

1:33.0

student loan repayment will be extended one final time through the end of this year. And

1:38.8

they should expect to resume payment in January of 2023, January of next year. Okay, a

1:45.6

couple of fun facts about this. $10,000 student loan forgiveness plan would wipe out the student

1:51.1

balances of around 31% of students while halfing the student debt balances of another 21%

1:59.0

of borrowers. So this impacts over half of the people, half of Americans who have student

2:04.7

loan debt, which is millions of people. But in 2019, one of the healthiest periods of the

2:09.5

economy, 10 million borrowers were still behind on their payments. So while we applied progress

2:15.4

today, tomorrow we demand more. This is hugely impactful, especially for students of color,

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