Made a student loan payment
By NJ Chicaa
@NJChicaa (116013)
United States
May 9, 2021 11:36am CST
Yup. I have been working full-time for 20 years and I still owe $4000+ in student loans. The requirement to resume repaying them (to the government) was suspended back last spring when the whole COVID thing hit. It was November. Then they moved it to January. Now it is to this November.
I still have been repaying each month. I want to get that monkey off of my back. The payment is like $83 per month but I pay $100 every time. This thing will never go away.
So anyway I don't technically have to pay it this month but I did. Ugh. I just want to get rid of it.
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18 responses
@arunima25 (85328)
• Bangalore, India
9 May 21
Oh! It's better to get rid off any loan. The sooner the better. From last few months, we feel a sigh of relief. We paid all our pending loans in January. And we feel that it's a big load off our head and shoulders.
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@popciclecold (35111)
• United States
9 May 21
I bet that is a really good feeling.
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@arunima25 (85328)
• Bangalore, India
9 May 21
@popciclecold It is. Now we don't owe any money to any financial institution. And we can afford to take some loan in future if we ever need to. A good part of our monthly income was going to pay loans. Now we can save more.
@popciclecold (35111)
• United States
9 May 21
@arunima25 You are to be congratulated.
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@mildredtabitha (16053)
• Nairobi, Kenya
9 May 21
That's a big debt but I hope you finish paying it
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@kaylachan (57727)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 May 21
It's like our mortage. Even if we were offered a break due to COVID, we decided to continue paying it each month. Same with our credit card bills and everything else. Only breaks we've accepted were when the companies, themselves, offered them. Like when our water department decided to give us a month of free water and only charged us for the trash recycling and taxes.
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@Prabhatsingh (3537)
• India
9 May 21
For how long was it supposed to go on in the first place?
What was the loan amount that you took?
At this rate, it's gonna take you another 3.5 years to clear them. 
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@popciclecold (35111)
• United States
9 May 21
I think you are going the right thing.
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@popciclecold (35111)
• United States
9 May 21
I don't really blame you. I have always heard about, how hard it is to pay off student loans.
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
10 May 21
I feel the same way towards my loans. I pay extra each month and the extra goes against the principal.
@RebeccasFarm (86764)
• United States
9 May 21
Surely the interest is very low isnt it
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@RebeccasFarm (86764)
• United States
9 May 21
@NJChicaa Really..mine was only around 2 percent around there.
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@kobesbuddy (74594)
• East Tawas, Michigan
9 May 21
My daughter-in-law is doing the same thing, she continues to pay off her student loan. And Kris has been teaching 6-7-8th graders for over twenty years! Those colleges are syphoning students for years, like bandits!
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@Belexhanns (3431)
• Kampala, Uganda
9 May 21
Yeah its better you pay it so that other students benefit from it
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@wolfgirl569 (95261)
• Marion, Ohio
10 May 21
Its sad that you have to be in debt for so long to get an education.
