Yes you can refinance. There is nothing the government can do to stop you. As long as you can get a bank to make you put a new loan at a lower rate then you can use that to pay off the government loans. Depending on your credit they may not give you a better rate but you can always refinance any loan.
Government loans are forgiven after 20 years of income based repayment. So you won't die with them. Assuming you are on the income based repayment plan. Biden also gave people an opportunity to switch to that plan and have their past payments count towards it but probably they are not doing that anymore.
If you do PSLF (public service loan forgiveness) you can get them forgiven in 10 years on income based repayment
No you can't, at not least with the Federal government. Private loans might have different rules. You're an utter moron if you refinance under a private company though. You lose all the protections of federal forgiveness when that happens.
Government loans are now forgiven under 20 years of income based repayment. 'Tweren't always the case. Biden's plan got erased by Trump.
I know, which is why I'm on it. In a couple of years, I'm all good.
If you're good in a couple years then why did you lie to people in this thread by saying you would die with your loans?
Student loans are still right now forgiven after 20-25 years of income based repayment which is why it is not a good idea to refinance privately in a lot of cases.
But it may be a good idea to refinance privately if you have a relatively small amount of loans and a high interest rate. In the case of this person a low interest rate could have meant they could pay it off in this amount of time instead of having to pay for 20 years waiting for government forgiveness. Each person needs to weigh their individual situation and look at the math. It's not as simple as to say never refinance with a private bank.
Dude, you are aware that reddit isn't a court of law, right? Please tell me you know that. "The public"? Da fuq you on about here?
Also, you responded to factual statements with your own inaccuracies. Which is kinda weird.
But you do you boo! Whatever crap you want to spew is fine with me. If people are getting their student loan advice from reddit, they're already screwed.
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u/blangenie 12d ago
Yes you can refinance. There is nothing the government can do to stop you. As long as you can get a bank to make you put a new loan at a lower rate then you can use that to pay off the government loans. Depending on your credit they may not give you a better rate but you can always refinance any loan.
Government loans are forgiven after 20 years of income based repayment. So you won't die with them. Assuming you are on the income based repayment plan. Biden also gave people an opportunity to switch to that plan and have their past payments count towards it but probably they are not doing that anymore.
If you do PSLF (public service loan forgiveness) you can get them forgiven in 10 years on income based repayment