Happy New Year!

Attending Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University with a friend, beginning next week.
I know I'll be told to pay off my student loans, but my IDR plan payment is literally $0.

Would you just focus on everything else and "forget" about the loans until the times come when a payment is actually required? I know we shouldn't depend on forgiveness, but I'm a teacher, so I know I have some (all but guaranteed) partial forgiveness coming soon.

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If you are pursuing public service loan forgiveness, disregard his advice regarding those loans. Pay the lowest payment you can while still being eligible. Paying extra on those loans is literally throwing money away. If you’re pursuing partial forgiveness under some other program, you just need to evaluate the payment strategy that costs the least. Dave doesn’t like relying on forgiveness strategies because they’re not guaranteed and could cost you significantly more if you end up not qualifying. That’s a fair concern but if it’s one you share, you should probably not pursue the forgiveness route. Between my wife and I, we saved had more than $200,000 through public service loan forgiveness. It definitely works if you comply with the requirements.

Also, do not listen to Dave Ramsey for investment advice. His advice is often poor outside of the debt reduction space.

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Glad to hear it worked for you and your wife.
I plan to do PSLF, so I'm going to pretend they don't exist!

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Ime student loans are an area where those programs are extremely deficient, because student loans have the IDR stuff and PSLF, and just paying the minimum until it goes away is basically antithetical to them

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This is the way I'm leaning, honestly. I don't have other debt, but as a teacher in a rural area, I also don't think I'll make more than a small dent before they're old enough for forgiveness anyway.

Congrats! That program is great! Definitely the baby steps and focus on the emergency fund first, then pay off the loan. Is the loan interest free? I'm assuming not. The only reason I would delay it is if it was 100% 0 interest. Good luck!

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Don’t we have to make 120 payments on the loans until they are forgiven? Or did that change. As a RN I was thinking of doing the same thing but after 120 payments I should be down paying mine.

Baby steps are 🔑. Good luck and enjoy!

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FPU saved my life! I followed it and got completely out of debt. Now I'm using it to stay out of debt. 10/10.

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I am out of debt besides my mortgage and these student loans.
So I'm either on BS 2 or BS 6. 🤷🏻‍♀️
I'm shooting for PSLF, so I guess I'll back track to BS 2 if it falls through for some reason at a later date

Follow the baby steps! Those student loans need to be in line for payment. Interest still accrues.

I've thought about paying just the monthly interest, so at least balances don't go up.
But it's tempting to put that money towards my mortgage

Depends if interest is accruing on them - if it is, I would probably start to tackle them as well

It depends on your repayment plan, if you are on the SAVE, IDR plan then interest doesn’t accrue as long as your making the minimum payment even if that payment is 0 so I wouldn’t pay it and focus on other debts, investments and savings.

I took this a million years ago. It’s a great foundation for paying off debt but by no means is it law. If you have other debts or personal financial goals to focus on after step 1, I’d focus there.

I think this is what I'm going to do.
All I have is my mortgage.
So if I include the loans, I'm on Baby Step 2.
If not, then I'm BS 6.
I'd rather pay my mortgage off early than pay on the loans anyway!

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