nothing infuriates me more than "debt forgiveness" of college and law school graduates.
which in REALITY is: American taxpayers and more debt pay for all the rich white kids to graduate with expensive useless degrees that they never have to pay for.
35-year-old was 29 months away from getting her $247,804 student debt forgiven. Now she's stuck
Published Wed, Apr 2 20259:16 AM EDT
Many student loan borrowers are experiencing challenges on their timeline to debt forgiveness.
Aubrey Bertram was starting to imagine her life without student debt.
Bertram, a staff attorney at Wild Montana, a nonprofit that works on land conservation in the state, had just around two and a half years left of payments before her $247,804 federal student loan balance would be excused under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
But for many months now, she's been frozen on her timeline to that relief.
"We're not getting credit," said Bertram, 35. "This time has been devastating."
Bertram took out her loans in law school knowing that she'd work in public service and pursue PSLF.
"That was the only way taking on this debt made any sense," Bertram said.
Millions of other student loan holders are in the same frustrating limbo now. After Republican-led legal challenges blocked the Biden administration's new repayment plan in the summer of 2024, the borrowers who enrolled in the program, like Bertram, have found themselves stuck.
Many of those borrowers remain in a forbearance that doesn't bring them closer to debt forgiveness, while the Trump administration recently revised other student loan repayment plans to no longer conclude in debt cancellation.
Here's what to know about the current challenges to federal student loan forgiveness, and what you can do about them.