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  • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Here’s the fucked up part. We were all told to NOT make the payments. Well in hindsight, that was a bad idea, because I could have almost paid off my loans interest free. Now I go back to owing $10K+ and will have to pay interest on it. This whole situation is really shitty for everyone.

    • Morcyphr@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      That’s bs. No one was told to not make payments, just that required payments and interest were on hold. Same with all the idiots that decided the eviction moratorium meant they don’t have to pay rent. Ever.

      Yes, I have student loans (30k), too, and had rent payments until a year ago.

      I feel your pain, but if you could have paid on your loans, you should have. That’s on you.

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          1 year ago

          I still disagree. We were put in a position, as I stated. What we did with that is on us. I didn’t make payments either. We were all hoping for loan forgiveness, but we mostly knew that wasn’t happening. I can say I gambled on that and lost, but I certainly wasn’t forced to.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It was a dick move to cancel auto payments and force anyone wanting to continue to pay to go back and set it up again. There were also the people saying to not pay and invest the money, which didn’t actually work out that well if you tried it.

      There were people that said keep paying if you can, or even pay more, in many places these people were drowned out by the invest crowd.