Comparing Income-Driven Repayment Plans | Heather Jarvis

January 14, 2016 Comparing Income-Driven Repayment Plans There are now five different income-driven repayment plans: Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR), Income-Based Repayment ...
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Land Mines, Cluster Bombs, and a Partridge in a Pear Tree. All I Want For Christmas is No World War III

Insanity, a sage once said,  “is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” Under ...
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Latest CFPB Effort to Improve Things for Student Loan Borrowers: “Payback Playbook” | Heather Jarvis

March 29, 2016 Latest CFPB Effort to Improve Things for Student Loan Borrowers: “Payback Playbook” Student loan borrowers struggle mightily ...
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Moving the Nation’s Capital Out of the District of Columbia. An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

People’s Republic, Kurt Schlichter’s post-apocalyptic novel, posits a breakdown of the American Republic as the Blue States collapse under the ...
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Enrollment in Income-Driven Repayment is Up | Heather Jarvis

March 29, 2016 Enrollment in Income-Driven Repayment is Up Nerds like me will want to check out recently released updates to ...
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President Biden pardons Hunter. What about Jill?

 The legacy media, in a frenzy of mendacity and hypocrisy, claims to be disappointed by President Biden’s pardon of his ...
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Direct Loan interest rates to be half percent lower for 2016-17 | Heather Jarvis

June 4, 2016 Direct Loan interest rates to be half percent lower for 2016-17 Not exactly thrill worthy but better ...
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Long Live the Gingerbread People!

 Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Trader Joe’s grocery stores sell all kinds of delectable snack ...
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Don’t turn your Federal Loans Private! – The Student Loan Lawyer

During college I got a job with the financial aid office as part of a work study program. There, I ...
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Deadline to Update Income (Recertify) for Payment Plans Extended to at Least September 2024

The deadline for borrowers to update their income to stay in their income-driven repayment (IDR) plans has been extended again ...
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