Hello,
I am a math teacher in a poor rural district. My loans began on January
of 1997. Is there anything we can do as a group to fight this.
Everything that I have researched is disappointing. If you have a loan
before 1993 and after 1998, your loans are forgiven. What about the few
years in between!

Thanks,
Angela

On 4/28/08, J. wrote:
> 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).
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> 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.

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