This work is by no means complete. But no one 4 years ago thought that we would be saying 1 million people have had debt cancelled because they worked in public service. In 2017, 96 borrowers had debt canceled through PSLF. It was only 7k by 2021. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/u...
An effort to revive and maximize use of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program has resulted in student loan forgiveness for over one million people.
I worked 12 years of public service but I only had about two years of “qualifying” service before the Biden admin fixed this program. My loans were forgiven last year!
The Biden administration really did great work on this.
I'm going to take some credit for having written this in the Times 5 years ago: www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/u...
I’m one of them!!
So grateful that after nearly twenty years of teaching high school English in public schools, my PSLF finally went through a little over a year ago.
I am one payment away!
My cousin, a veterinarian, had one MILLION dollars in student debt cancelled because she worked 10 years for a non-profit that handles the most cruelly abused animals. She earned that debt forgiveness.
I'm due for PSLF forgiveness in April and i'm living in fear of what a Trump win might mean for that. I'm not even on a special waiver or anything, i clearly meet all the stated qualifications, but that didn't matter when DeVos ran DOE
I was SO WRONG about this - I never thought it would happen and it is such a wonderful surprise (and a testament to activists and scholars) that it did.
I just got my letter 😎