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Under Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Plans, any remaining loan balance is forgiven if a borrower's federal student loans aren't fully repaid at the end of the repayment period (either 20 or 25 years, depending on the type of plan).

The income limits are based on your adjusted gross income (AGI) in either the 2020 or 2021 tax year. People who earned less than $125,000 annually (or $250,000 if filing taxes jointly) are eligible. If you qualify in either of those years, you can get forgiveness.

You may be eligible for discharge of your federal student loans based on borrower defense to repayment if you took out the loans to attend a school and the school did something or failed to do something related to your loan or to the educational services that the loan was intended to pay for.

If you are employed by a U.S. federal, state, local, or tribal government or not-for-profit organization, you might be eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

No. Since private student loans aren't controlled by the government, borrowers don't have the same protections they do with federal student loans. So, while private loan lenders may have the power to forgive student loans, they're certainly not going to let you or your student loans off the hook.

You can lose credit for your payments toward income-driven repayment (IDR) forgiveness. You don't have to consolidate all your federal student loans.

Who qualifies for student loan forgiveness? To be eligible for forgiveness, you must have federal student loans and earn less than $125,000 annually (or $250,000 per household). Borrowers who meet that criteria can get up to $10,000 in debt cancellation.

After you make your 120th qualifying monthly payment for PSLF, you'll need to submit the PSLF form to receive loan forgiveness. You must be working for a qualifying employer at the time you submit the PSLF form and at the time the remaining balance on your loan is forgiven.