I feel really stupid for paying mine off. I won’t get 10,000 to compensate? This bailout makes less sense than slave reparations to people who were never slaves.
I tapped my retirement fund to pay off mine. (Figured the gains during Trump would eventually disappear so why not make them accomplish something?) I re-careered at age 50 all while putting three girls through college too.
Two of my girls paid their loans off and one still has a ways to go
Of course, our “stupid” started before we took out the loans. Hubs and I are the only couple in our original friend group who stayed married.
That plus owning two mortgages made us “too rich” to qualify for anything but loans where many of my friends’ kids got grants based on income of a single mom.
I said I should have divorced him on paper before the girls went to college