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Financial Feminist

BONUS: Student Loan Forgiveness FAQ

Financial Feminist

Her First $100K

How To, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.76.6K 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. To get more resources, including any freebies mentioned in this episode, head to ⁠⁠https://herfirst100k.com/ffpod⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/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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