My main questions here are whether there are stipulations about when the loan was taken, when the course of study finishes, and if having a cosigner affects whether one qualifies.

I'll just give my data and see if anybody can find this out for me: Say I have a student loan from Sallie Mae that was taken around January of last year, for a course of studies that terminate in October. One thing I'm wondering, I definitely make (way) less than the income, in fact I make pretty much nothing. But in order to get a loan in the first place I needed to have my parents co-sign, and I'm pretty sure they make more than 125k. Does the income of a cosigner come into play here, or can I still get $10k cancelled?

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I'll survive. Hopefully my new career gives me the income to pay it off quick, if not guess I'll just leave the country and never pay it anyway. I already left the US but planning to go back temporarily to work as a software dev, pay all my debts and save some money, then leave again. It just sucks to have gone through the 5 minute long emotional rollercoaster of "hell yeah I just got $10,000! Oh wait nvm this does literally nothing for my poor broke ass".

        • RedDawn [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Oh shit you're right. Yeah I won't do that to my folks, guess I'll just pay it one way or the other. At least the monthly payment is pretty low, the problem is I have a fuck ton of other debt (which actually is to the federal government but not classified as student loans). The good thing is if I can actually land just an average junior software engineer type job, I really ought to be able to pay it in like a year. I'm just thoroughly pessimistic about everything with the way my life has played out over the last few years that I'll never even get a job or something.