Dealing with Student Loan Debt in the Pandemic and Beyond with Robert Farrington
The His and Her Money Show
Talaat and Tai McNeely
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Something that we talk about a lot at His & Her Money is student loans. With so many people out there struggling with their student loan debt, we know it can be overwhelming on a good day, but especially in today's uncertain times. Federal student loans are currently on pause until September, but then what? When school is officially back in session, where do you go from there?
Well, for today's episode of the His & Her Money Show, we brought in somebody who's a bit of an expert on the whole subject of student loans and everything -- we mean EVERYTHING -- that comes with it.
Robert Farrington is here dropping facts and wisdom on tackling your student loan debt and coming up with your own effective, stress-free approach to knocking them out as fast and smooth as possible!
RESOURCES MENTIONED
- The College Investor | thecollegeinvestor.com/
- LoanBuddy | loanbuddy.us/
- Student Loan Forgiveness Options |https://thecollegeinvestor.com/578/ways-to-get-student-loan-forgiveness/
- Financial Aid Programs By State | https://thecollegeinvestor.com/student-loan-financial-aid-by-state/
- Student Aid Resources | studentaid.gov/
- College Scorecard | collegescorecard.ed.gov/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the His and Her Money Show, where we show you how to have better money, be a better couple, and live a better life. |
| 0:11.0 | Now, here are your hosts hosts Talent and Time McNeely. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey everybody welcome back to another fantastic edition of the His and Her Money show |
| 0:19.2 | where we are helping you to get better money, become a better couple, and live a better life. |
| 0:25.2 | Guys, we are excited about today's episode because we're tackling something that a lot of |
| 0:30.6 | you all are up against, and that is student loan debt the world has been turned |
| 0:36.6 | upside down in so many ways and that has left a bunch of question marks around |
| 0:40.6 | this area doesn't have a whole lot of conversations going on because of, you know, some other tougher conversations are going on in the world, but hey, we got to talk about it. We have to figure out are things the same when it comes to the student loans that I have? |
| 0:55.0 | Are there some ways and some programs that have been created to help? |
| 1:00.0 | And what about if I want to go back to school? |
| 1:02.0 | What if I feel like this need that I want to go to school? |
| 1:03.7 | If I'm going to school for the first time, how can I tackle all of the cost associated with that? |
| 1:11.2 | And so to help us navigate this incredible conversation we have a very |
| 1:16.1 | special guest no stranger to the show an expert in all this stuff none other than Robert |
| 1:22.1 | Farrington from the college investor. Hey Robert |
| 1:26.9 | welcome back to the His and Her Money Show. Hey thanks so much for having me back I'm |
| 1:31.0 | excited to be here let's talk talk about this. It's crazy. |
| 1:33.7 | Let's do it man because even we've had a conversation man a couple months ago like |
| 1:39.2 | when this pandemic thing was first kicking off and things aren't even the same from then to now. |
| 1:46.4 | So what is some of the more pressing things? |
| 1:50.3 | I mean, I know people are hitting your inbox and asking you a million questions. What are you hearing as a big concern for people right now in this area? |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah, so right now it's like twofold, right? We have people that have student loans and what is going to happen. Right now, federal student loans are paused. So when we last chatted, I want to say back in March, you know, it was only like a 60 day thing and then they extended it out and paused everything until September 30th. But you know, September 30th is getting closer and closer every single day. And so people are getting concerned of is it going to be extended? Am I going to have to start making |
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