List all of your loans and debts. They are all covered in your bankruptcy.
A "reaffirmed loan" is a loan that the claimant in a bankruptcy has left out of the bankruptcy and is "reaffirming" that they will still pay the loan as usual.
You can but 1, if your financial situation is such that you're considering bankruptcy, you almost certainly won't get approved and 2, it wouldn't necessarily be forgiven or dismissed as part of the bankruptcy.
A law was passed in 1998 that has made it even more difficult to discharge a student loan in bankruptcy. It is incredibly difficult to discharge a loan in this way, and the only approach is to convince a court that repaying the loan would create a severe hardship for you. Otherwise there are options to research into getting your loan payments postponed and/or deferred.
The federal perkins loan is a student loan offered by the U.S. Department of Education to help American students with their college financing. Those that use the federal perkins loan, will have a 5% interest rate that can be paid over ten years.
One can have a student loan forgiven if one has no money at all to pay or if one joins a program called student loan which basically pays every penny of ones loan.
Until it's paid off, or you declare bankruptcy and have the debt forgiven.
No.
If you file bankruptcy, you file bankruptcy on everything. You can not file bankruptcy on one loan.
A "reaffirmed loan" is a loan that the claimant in a bankruptcy has left out of the bankruptcy and is "reaffirming" that they will still pay the loan as usual.
You can but 1, if your financial situation is such that you're considering bankruptcy, you almost certainly won't get approved and 2, it wouldn't necessarily be forgiven or dismissed as part of the bankruptcy.
Sometimes you can have your student loans forgiven if you fulfill a certain criteria. There is such a thing called Perkins Loan Forgiveness. You can request a Perkins Loan cancellation form from your school's financial aid office. If you can acquire a job as a public worker (i.e. work at a public school) you can request the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, however you must have already made at least 120 loan payments on time.
A law was passed in 1998 that has made it even more difficult to discharge a student loan in bankruptcy. It is incredibly difficult to discharge a loan in this way, and the only approach is to convince a court that repaying the loan would create a severe hardship for you. Otherwise there are options to research into getting your loan payments postponed and/or deferred.
The federal perkins loan is a student loan offered by the U.S. Department of Education to help American students with their college financing. Those that use the federal perkins loan, will have a 5% interest rate that can be paid over ten years.
One can have a student loan forgiven if one has no money at all to pay or if one joins a program called student loan which basically pays every penny of ones loan.
"Discharge" applies to a debt being wiped out by the bankruptcy court. If all the requirements are met and approved by a bankruptcy judge, then yes, a debtor's obligation can be discharged. If the debtor does not file or qualify to be granted a bankruptcy, then No, his debt will not be discharged, or forgiven. It needs to be paid.
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No, discharged debt is considered a forgiveness of debt and not a bankruptcy. Bankruptcy can only happen as a result of bankruptcy court procedure. Certain loans can be discharged due to hardship or disability, especially if there is an insurance policy in force to cover such a situation. When a loan is forgiven due to hardship or disability, the debtor's credit rating is usually not affected.