Even with President Biden's loan forgiveness plan underway, some borrowers still face uncertainty and mounting debts.
“There is no process yet. So it's a little early to say that it's complicated. In fact, we know for a fact that for about 8 million borrowers, they're not going have to do anything. It's just magically going to happen on their accounts, because the Department of Education already has access to their income information for everybody else. We don't know what the process is going to look like yet.
On advice for people like Brian Vlasak, who is disabled and has hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt “When Brian started talking, the first thing I thought of was public service loan forgiveness. But then [they] mentioned [a] recent diagnosis that has made it that [they’re] unable to work, they should look into total and permanent disability discharge, which, if they qualify, would forgive their debt entirely. And I just want to add, [no one should] feel guilty about that. These programs were put in place for a reason.
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