Monday 21 May 2012

Student Loan Debt In the US Reaches Highest in History

By Leroy Alderman


Typically loans that are designed to facilitate easy payment are student loans. This loan contains favorable terms and conditions of repayment which are generally aimed for the students. However, the recession and the slump in the job market have caused the loans that could have easily been paid off in easy installments to the stage of default. Considering the present situation the Federal government has now introduced new student loan forgiveness program for Federal Direct loans. However, forgiveness programs are not applicable to defaulted loans.

Because many students are unaware that these programs exist, many of these receive only a few applications each year, leaving tens of thousands of dollars untouched. However, you must make sure that your federal loans are really bad before you apply for a student loan forgiveness program. Gaining the student loan is no matter of magic and you will be required to work hard for student loan forgiveness program. And often they just pay a part of it and not the entire loan.

Also referred to as the National Defense Student Loan Program, it's the first major federal loan forgiveness program which was approved from the National Defense Education Act in 1958. This was a loan forgiveness program intended for public college teachers. Loan forgiveness provisions presently applicable to Federal Family Education Loans and Direct Loans had been adopted within the 1998 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA). For borrowers who work in specific public services jobs, loan forgiveness is also accessible for Perkins Loans (low-interest loans made by institutions of higher education to students with monetary need).

There are federal loan forgiveness and service pay back programs specific to particular occupations or categories of borrowers in addition to the US Department of Education administered provisions. The profession like military and health is included in this. In 2000-2001 a survey of 100 states indicated that 43 states had one or more of these programs. The majority of financial aid administrators interviewed about these programs for this survey reported that they were effective in meeting students' financial needs and workforce needs.

In the 108th Congress, legislation was passed that will, among other things will temporarily expand student loan forgiveness to $17,500 for highly qualified special education teachers working in elementary and secondary schools, and for highly qualified mathematics and science teachers working in secondary schools. The expanded student loan forgiveness amount applies only to new borrowers on or after October 1, 1998, who borrow before October 1, 2005.




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