Re: Please include in letter of change for loan forgivness!!!
Posted by J. on 4/28/08

Hi,

The sad truth is:
An older person is more likely to have taken out a student loan before
1997, but have no possibility in having the loans forgiven.
A younger person is more likely to have taken out a student loan after
1997, but is able to have the loans forgiven.
This is a complete disgrace to the older population.
Again, older people need this "loan forgiveness" more than a younger
person, since they have less years left to save for retirement.
If anything, it should be reversed!
(Nothing against young teachers, but this "forgiveness program" is
entirely unfair).

On 2/08/08, Melody Johnson wrote:
> On 2/06/08, jeff davis wrote:
>> On 10/19/07, Julie M. wrote:
>>> I also found out what a bunch of horse pucky the whole teacher
>>> loan forgiveness program is. My first loan funded in August of
>>> 1998, becaused the semester started in August. So of course it
>>> is before the October 7, 1998 cutoff. Now isn't that just
>>> convenient. I don't know what we can do about this kind of
>>> crap. I wrote to my state senator and was told, sorry, we
>>> didn't make the rule. There should be some way we could ban
>>> together and fight this!
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/20/07, Susan Stumm wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 1/09/07, ncm wrote:
>>>>> On 8/05/06, Douglas Freiwald wrote:
>>>>>> What a sham!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't believe I would get anything from the federal
>>>>>> government. I applied for the student loan forgiveness
>>>>>> program after teaching in Title I school and I was turned
>>>>>> down. I guess working and going to school(prior to 1998)
>>>>>> and taking care of my wife and children was selfish of me.
>>>>>> This is the second time the federal government has screwed
>>>>>> me on traing programs with narrow minded legislation.
>>>>>
>>>>> know what you mean. I got my sped degree between 1996-1998
>>>>> and didn't qualify either. All my younger colleagues
>>>>> qualified, yet I got screwed. Is there any way to petition
>>>>> congress on a change?
>>>>
>>>> I have been working in a Title 1 school since 1999. They say
>>>> that I'm not elegible for any type of forgiveness because I
>>>> didn't sign up with the Apple Program before I graduated. I
>>>> was never informed of the program. What can I do? My loans
>>>> have been acrruing interest for years!
> I'm not eligible for the Teacher Forgiveness Program because I had
> an outstanding loan WHICH WAS NOT IN DEFAULT and I was still going
> to school to be a teacher. I teach in a low-income system, at an
> Alternative School, and am a Special Education teacher...I meet 3
> requirments, just not the most important one evidently. Anyway, my
> advisors at my college never told me about the Perkin's Loan. I
> found out about it, myself, the last semester of my school. It
> helped a little, but not much.

Posts on this thread, including this one

• student loan forgiveness, 8/05/06, by Douglas Freiwald.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 1/09/07, by ncm.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 4/17/07, by G.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 9/17/07, by Lauren.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 9/20/07, by Susan Stumm.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 10/19/07, by Julie M..
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 10/23/07, by FB.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 11/02/07, by meredith fries-isaac.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 1/01/08, by GA Teacher.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 2/06/08, by jeff davis.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 2/06/08, by jeff davis.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 2/08/08, by Melody Johnson.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 2/08/08, by Melody Johnson.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 2/08/08, by Julie M..
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 2/09/08, by Melody Johnson.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 2/16/08, by GA Teacher.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 2/16/08, by GA Teacher.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 2/22/08, by Melody Johnson.
• Re: student loan forgiveness, 4/09/08, by Said H Farah.
• Re: Please include in letter of change for loan forgivness!!!, 4/28/08, by J..
• Re: Please include in letter of change for loan forgivness!!, 7/09/08, by Angela Palazzi.
• Re: Please include in letter of change for loan forgivness!!, 7/09/08, by Nicole .