Income-Driven Repayment Plans Don’t Always Help Debtors Afford Homes

It’s often a challenge to discharge student-loan debt in a New York bankruptcy case, which is why I have consistently recommended debtors with federal-education loans choose income-driven-repayment (IDR) plans if they find their monthly payments difficult to afford. These plans reduce monthly payments to a fraction of ten-year repayment plan and offer loan forgiveness after …

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