It is fully understandable for a borrower planning on PSLF to be concerned, but it is not yet time to give up on the program. Instead, learn the rules, keep careful records and start saving up a PSLF side fund, just in case.
How do Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), PAYE, and REPAYE work? What are the strategies for maximizing the amount forgiven? Learn to manage your student loans well and increase your financial security.
Managing your student loans properly can save tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. The higher your debt to income ratio, the more benefit to getting this right.
This two-doc couple owes $840K and they're not even out of residency yet. What can be done? Leaving California is one option, but PSLF may be a better one.
Student loans stink. To make matters worse, figuring out what to do with them can seem complicated. Here I present a flowchart that should help clear up the confusion.
[Updated Editor's Note: Welcome WSJ readers! I see that Josh Mitchell's recent article, US Student-Loan Forgiveness Program Proves Costly, links to this site claiming that some call the PSLF a "Docto...
I'm running two posts this week about student loans, this one today and a guest post tomorrow. Today's post will be about whether or not to refinance as a resident, a very complicated topic. Tomorrow'...
I've been getting various versions of the following question more and more frequently: Q. I was playing around with a loan calculator and I figure it would be better to just take the loan forgiveness...
The second part of my eight part webinar series on QuantiaMD is now up. It's entitled Student Loan Management and deals with minimizing your loan burden in medical school, using IBR/PAYE and the forgi...
Sometimes, smart people simply aren't aware of the financial issues they need to take care of. New physicians either need to do their own financial planning, or pay someone else to assist them with i...
[Update March 2018: This post was updated a bit. When originally written, there was no PAYE or REPAYE. Be aware that the Obama Administration, the Trump Administration and our current Congress have co...
It's been made pretty clear to me Congress really doesn't care about professional and graduate students, especially medical students. There are no Pell grants for graduate studies. The College Cost...
If you're working for a(501(c3), PSLF is the federal debt forgiveness program most physicians should be looking at, offering tax-free forgiveness in under 10 years if you qualify.
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