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It is great but as long as new debt will be immediately acrued by current students this is just a temporary fix. Or is there anything planned how to deal with that?

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It’s a new payment plan, so applies to new student debt as well.

If I’m reading the StudentAid.gov correctly, the SAVE plan has the following:

  • Increase in income exemption to 225% of poverty line (~$66k/yr)
  • Undergraduate Loans now are 5% of AGI above exemption limit
  • No interest accrued if you make your monthly payment
  • After 10 yrs of payment, if principle loan was $12k or less, loan is forgiven. Payment period increases by 1 yr for every $1k over that amount (e.g. for $20k loan, forgiveness after 18 yrs)
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20 points

This action makes a good headline for re-election purposes.

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31 points

Oh yes, let’s never do anything good, because there might be something else even more impossible that would be better.

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The point being made is that it’s infuriating to watch “good” politicians half-ass policies that, if more thoroughly implemented, would be life-changingly positive for an enormous swath of our citizenry.

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14 points

A president doing something that’s popular in order to get elected? Preposterous!

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4 points

Do you feel that this in insincere or misleading?

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7 points

If you read the article, yes.

Debt forgiveness occurs after 10 years in an income-driven repayment plan (down from 20-25 years). Payments in these plans is now capped at 5% of discretionary income (down from 10%). Unspecified improvements to tracking progress towards loan forgiveness (historically this has been done by the company servicing the loan, and they are beyond awful at it, so this might just be not relying on them for this decision anymore).

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If you guys would take the time to read the article you would see that this is not the same debt forgiveness plan as before. The plan cancels the debt remaining for students who have been making payments for 20 years. It’s not a one time action but will be available to anyone in the future under the same circumstances.

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-33 points

Guess it’s fuck me then. Biden not getting my vote fuck him. This probably get blocked too and he knows it. Cancel it all our fuck off.

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18 points

Cool, the next rethuglican president will probably work out way better for you.

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7 points

Accurate username anyway.

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4 points

Did he get your vote last time? Some people don’t vote solely on the ‘what can you do for me specifically’ criterion

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I held my nose and voted for him. Had to get Trump out of office. Sick of it though the lesser evil is still evil.

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Is our education system so broken that you didn’t know that a “loan” is?

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