#save program

[karadin]

While you were sleeping ...

Federal Judge blocks Musk from firing federal employees through the Office of Personnel Management

Republican Congress passes a bill in the House to slash Medicaid and SNAP (food stamp) funding in order to give a 4 TRILLION dollar tax cut to the wealthiest of the 1%.

Republican Senate passes bill to tackle defense spending and other priorities first while leaving cuts to social programs in another bill. Trump backs the House plan. No democrats voted on behalf of either bill.

Trump administration blocks the access of student loan borrowers to process, file and consolidate loans through the Student Aid.Gov website.

Go to your loan servicing site, in some cases you can upload forms, but you can still do your loan work via phone or by mail. Look for the IDR paperwork online, even if it states it's an older form, it does not hurt to try. You can find address for mailing on your loan servicers site.

If you need to do your annual reporting of income, contact your loan servicers or mail them proof of income, tax return or at least 2 paystubs and send them a letter with your name, address, phone, email and your loan account number.

Go to your student loan accounts online and record you most current statement, in case you will have to prove the status of your loan, balances etc, at a future date. Consider switching your notifications from email to paper.

If you are switching from the SAVE program to another form of income based repayment, IBR is still available and as yet, untouched as it was mandated by Congress.

DC Judge blocks Trump administration from freezing ANY federal grants and loans

A Judge blocks Trump administration from stopping federal refugee program

Judge blocks Trump administration from freezing or stopping any foreign aid contracts - however SC Justice Roberts put a pause on this ruling

Musk fires employees at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (Republicans want to privatize weather reporting and suppress news on climate change)

Trump wants to privatize the United States Postal Service, merging it into the Commerce Department.

Elon Musk is given the task of re-vamping the Federal Aviation Administration flight programs, stealing a contract worth billions from Verizon FAA employees were illegally fired and replaced by Space X workers (Trump states that he is leaving it to Elon Musk to decide his own conflicts of interest, as Musk has many government contracts, in fact, the fed contracts are keeping Musk in the red, as his unpopularity to tanking his value in Tesla.

[dewitty1]

Jim Lovell, astronaut who commanded Apollo 13, dies at 97 - The Washi…

James A. Lovell Jr., the American astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its lunar voyage in 1970 and shepherded it on a perilous four-day journey back to Earth after an oxygen tank exploded, an ordeal that transfixed the world, died Aug. 7 in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97.

NASA announced his death in a statement, which did not cite a cause.

[the-cimmerians]

Joe Biden Like Some Sort Of Non-Giving-Up Student Debt-Forgiving, Uh, Guy

He won't stop, until your student debt is dead.

The Biden administration is actually rolling out one of the SAVE plan’s provisions early, six months before it was originally going to go into effect, and it’s a big one, regarding the small-balance loan provision mentioned above:

Starting next month, borrowers enrolled in SAVE who took out less than $12,000 in loans and have been in repayment for 10 years will get their remaining student debt cancelled immediately. This action will particularly help community college borrowers, low-income borrowers, and those struggling to repay their loans.

The announcement didn’t offer an estimate of how many people are likely to have their loans forgiven right away, but it’s likely to be “lots and lots.” Also, months during the pandemic student loan pause will count toward the 10-year payment clock, regardless of whether borrowers chose to keep making payments or not.

[thoughtportal]

Statement from President Joe Biden on Early Student Debt Cancellation for Borrowers Enrolled in SAVE | The White House

From Day One of my Administration, I vowed to fix the student loan system and make sure higher education is a pathway to the middle class –

means tested

SAVE program

[dicapiito]

[blackirishweab]

Just got another email about it so I thought I’d remind everyone who has federal student loans to sign up for the SAVE program again.

[wakor]

If the SAVE program lowered your payments, go to your loan provider and triple check that auto-payments aren't still scheduled.

Fucking Nelnet tried to be sneaky and scheduled a $400 payment for October even though 1) I was eligible for $0 payments, and 2) I wasn't even paying that amount before the pandemic began.

[lawsforhumanity]

My dudes I just applied for the SAVE program (last minute, I know) and my loan payments are going to be cut in half! If you haven't signed up yet, you should!