2 senators launch bipartisan effort to ease student-loan forgiveness for service members

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A GAO report found the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program rejected 94% of service members.See more stories on Insider's business pageService members are currently eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, in which they can enroll in income-based repayment plans that could lead to loan forgiveness after 10 years.

on Friday, which allows service members who deferred their student loan payments while deployed to count that period of time toward their PSLF progress. Currently, putting loans into deferment or forbearance while deployed don't count as qualifying payments, and this new legislation would expedite the process for service members to get earned student loan forgiveness.

According to a bill summary, this legislation would count military student loan deferment and forbearance as qualifying payments toward PSLF, including for:Active-duty service members deployed away from their families and home station;And National Guard members brought onto state active duty.

 

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Oh look.... it’s NON Liberals again the only ones that give a damn about those that fight for safety & gov’t agenda.

Now that’s something I can get behind. Not wanting to pay for all these children’s liberal art degrees so they can work at Starbucks.

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