My partner and I have about 60k in student loans and haven’t been paying even though they started back in October. I’m waiting to see if maybe we just shouldn’t. I remember there being chatter about how Nelnet and other loan holders had like laid off a bunch of people during the pause and hadn’t hired them back, and the system is overloaded and fucked, and how are people suddenly going to pay a big monthly expense anyway, etc etc. But if people were to not pay them, I feel like the media would not want to perpetuate that narrative and build it into something real by spreading the word so to speak. So I don’t know if there’s a way to gauge is people are actually paying them? Does anyone know?

  • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    Have you thoroughly checked the email they use for you for a forgiveness message? We were surprised to get one for my husband this past fall, but when we last logged in to check his loans, it showed the same status you're describing.