• prole@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    It may be technically possible to get private student loans discharged, but from what I understand, they’ve made it incredibly difficult.

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      9 months ago

      Mine were super easy. I simply didn’t pay them for a few years and they wrote them off. It hit my credit like a freight train and since the discharged debt counted as income April was pretty rough that year.

      Pretty soon the defaults will fall off my credit report and I’ll be 100% recovered, though likely blacklisted by the bank.

      And the funny thing is if they’d just let me defer payments and freeze interest for a few years like I’d requested, I’d actually have the income now to make payments. I didn’t want to not pay my loans, but food and rent came first.