• rxmc@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Non-millenial here, also watching my payments skyrocket by 440%. Can’t get loans with my excellent credit score because my debt to income ratio is super high. At this point it would cost me less to tank my credit, go into default, and be garnished since my credit score is meaningless anyway.

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      21 hours ago

      299.56% for me.

      And the kicker is that in the 10 years that I have paid, my principal balance has not decreased at all.

      Oh, and the real treat? Since the Federal injunction, I can’t recertify my repayment information, which means I lost all progress towards loan forgiveness.

      I am fucking livid.

      • bluemellophone@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        They will almost certainly change the rules once the injunction finalizes. Call your representative and tell them what’s going on.

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        19 hours ago

        When the game is that tilted against you, when do you just stop playing? You’re literally getting nowhere playing by the rules.

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            18 hours ago

            As I understand things from my own reading, Student Loans typically can’t be discharged with bankruptcy, and they start garnishing your wages eventually if you don’t pay voluntarily.

            Short of keeping all your money in cash and living off the grid in a hovel not worth the trouble for the bank to foreclose on, I think I’m pretty much fucked.

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              You can’t “not pay”, but a million people can “not pay”. You all need to get organised. These student loans are ridiculous, debilitating, crippling maybe even killing.

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      21 hours ago

      Holy shit!! I won the birth lottery be being born in Norway, and I watch Last week tonight with John Oliver weekly, read the news about what’s happening around the world, to be informed, listen to Behind the Bastards, Lemmy, local news etc., so I feel pretty informed. However, 440% increase? And the other commentary who’s paid for 10 years with no decrease - what in the actual fuck???

      There are SO many property owners who could not keep their house with a 5% increase on their house loan (article from COVID years), and I remember reading about people going to the news complaining that they had to cancel one of their streaming services, and others who maybe had to sell ONE of their two cabins.

      450%‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽ Why have people not revolted? How can you still be complacent? I’m so sorry to hear about this happening.

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          13 hours ago

          will Have and will again kill us.

          Our cops are fucking blood thirsty. If you listen to ex cops talk about their time in the force its us vs them constantly over and over again.

      • Brumefey@sh.itjust.works
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        16 hours ago

        Same. Born in Belgium and I had to pay less than 1000 € for a full academic year at the University. The quality of education is good. I got a decent job, correctly paid. I did not had any debt when I started my career. What more did you get in the USA ? I would be depressed as hell to be in the shoes of that guy who claimed above that he paid only the interests of his student debt, after ten years of reimbursement.