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The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday the interest rates on federal student loans for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The interest rate on federal direct undergraduate loans will be 6.53%. That’s the highest rate in at least a decade, according to higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. The undergraduate rate for the 2023-2024 year is 5.5%.

For graduate students, loans will come with an 8.08% interest rate, compared with the current 7.05%. Plus loans for graduate students and parents will have a 9.08% interest rate, an increase from 8.05% now. Both of those rates haven’t been as high in more than 20 years, Kantrowitz said.

The rise in interest rates could complicate the Biden administration’s efforts to get the student loan crisis under control and relieve borrowers of the pain of interest accrual, experts say. Even as millions of people have benefited from recent debt relief measures, new students will be saddled with more expensive loans for decades to come.

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[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

But under the terms of the save plan, it looks like it only covers the remaining of interest if the payment isn't enough. So wouldn't that make the principle unchanging if the payment wasn't enough to cover interest at all? Just paying the "interest" every month.

[-] RION@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Correct, which steers you toward the 20 year forgiveness path through minimum payments (or as little as 10 years depending on how much you borrowed). If so little of your payment was going to the principal that a 1% rate hike means it's all going to interest, the forgiveness path was probably the best choice for you to begin with.

[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

Such a roundabout way to "forgive".

[-] RION@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago
[-] Frank@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

I would like to advance the position that they will do several rug pulls between now and 2044.

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