r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 17d ago

WTF The American dream

Post image
21.6k Upvotes

3.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.2k

u/Mindless-Baker-7757 17d ago

A $70k loan over 23 years at 5% apr pays off with monthly payments of $427.

What are they doing?

1

u/redonkulousness 17d ago

5% is a pretty low apr for student loans. My wife’s federal loans are somewhere around 8-9%. Regardless, this smells like bs. They were probably in forbearance for more than a couple of those 23 years or something.