One-Time Forgiveness Count Adjustment
Do you need help making sense of the forgiveness count adjustment?
How do I find my forgiveness payment count adjustment?
According to ED, the automatic payment count adjustments are due to be completed in 2024. There is currently no official way to check your count adjustment yet. However, there is a non-official way to see the data ED currently has for you.
- Step 1) Log in to studentaid.gov
- Step 2) Open a new browser tab and go to https://studentaid.gov/app/api/nslds/payment-counter/summary
Caution: The data is going to look really ugly as it is not formatted well for viewing. Focus on reviewing the line items that show data for the repayment plan you are currently using and for loans that have a balance greater than zero.
If your count is not yet available or is lower than you were expecting, submit a request to the Federal Student Loan Ombudsman office for a manual count adjustment.
Special one-time student loan forgiveness count adjustment
The one-time forgiveness count adjustment is a lesser-known, more confusing, yet more widely available and very helpful special benefit announced in April 2022.
Anyone with federally-held student loans is eligible to receive the adjustment. Essentially, the adjustment will count any repayment time, and certain deferment or forbearance time as forgiveness eligible, regardless of payments made, loan type, or repayment plan used.
Anyone with any amount of time in federal student loan repayment, particularly those with ten or more years in repayment will want to know exactly how this benefit can work.
Direct Loan holders automatically benefit and do not need to do anything, unless you have loans with varying amounts of repayment time that you may want to consolidate before the end of this year. Anyone who could benefit from a Direct Consolidation, and nearly any Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) holders will want to consolidate before Dec 31, 2023, April 30, 2024 June 30, 2024, in order to benefit.
Here’s the best way to know if you need to act before the end of 2023 April June 2024 in order to qualify for the count adjustment:
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Got Consolidation Confusion?
Read this post on the most common consolidation questions.
If you have any student loan repayment questions, the best way for you to get answers is to visit the Student Debt Help page.
One-time Forgiveness Count Adjustment Student Loan Repayment Resources:
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