His Dad Took Out $70K in Parent PLUS Loans and Didn’t Tell Him

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:12.8	Normal is broken, common sense is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life.
0:18.0	From the Ramsey Network in the Fairwinds credit union studio this is the ramsie
0:23.4	show the phone number to jump in is triple eight eight two five five two two five alongside
0:28.7	the fabulous jay warshoff i'm ken coleman we're here together she's going to help you save
0:33.9	uh and spend the money i'm going to help you make more money that's my role here on the ramsie show i got to remind people from tie to time i like. I'm going to help you make more money.
0:37.8	That's my role here on the Ramsey show.
0:39.5	I got to remind people from time to time.
0:41.0	I like that. We're going to help you win at work. Two ways to win with money. We've got to make sure we're controlling the outflow and we want to get more in flow, if you will. So there it is. That's how we tag team. We start off with Bill, who is joining us in New Jersey.
0:54.3	Bill, how can we help today?
0:56.7	Hi, guys.
0:57.5	How are you help today?
0:56.6	Hi, guys. How are you doing today? We're doing well. What's going on? So, yeah, I'm calling
1:02.2	because I'm in a bit of a situation here with some college loans that I have, some student
1:09.1	loans that are, their parent plus loans, though, so they're
1:12.3	under my father's name, but I'm the one paying them. There's about three different loans,
1:21.1	they total to about 70K in total, between the three, and they have about 7% interest rate. At the moment, I've been paying
1:29.3	about $4.50 a month on them, but I just did the calculations. And with the interest rate,
1:35.3	it doesn't look like I'm going to be paying them off anytime soon with that.
1:38.8	Nope.
1:39.7	So I was just looking for some guidance there on what to do.
1:45.0	All right.
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