re: "Travel enthusiast” is grateful his student loans are forgiven

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Melt. Thanks to the save plan I'll be paying $400 instead of $1000 a month for another 5 years and will qualify for the same. 100k gone if approved.

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Congrats on winning at socialist plinko. My wife worked for two decades teaching deaf kids with all sorts of issues, for nonprofits. Because she followed the gov advice and consolidated grad and undergrad loans in early 2000s she didn’t qualify for any forgiveness.

They finally changed it when she owed less than $2,000.

Arbitrary and capricious bureaucratic bullshite.

Had I started paying law and grad school loans a year earlier I’d qualify under the new 20 year rule (I deferred during 08 meltdown and during illness then consolidated into direct fed loan during COVID to pause payments interest free—these are the games we play in these systems), I’d get “forgiveness.”

Plinko chip hit the wrong tine, so no soup for me.

Oh and GFY.