Reboot Your Life: Tampa Student Loan and Bankruptcy Attorney Blog
The IDR payment tracker was removed from many if not all borrower’s studentaid.gov sites today.
You can still find your payment count however. Write your servicer directly for it or use this direct link after you’ve logged onto StudentAid.gov: https://studentaid.gov/app/api/nslds/payment-counter/summary.
This link shows in a computer code format called JSON which you can’t read. But if you copy it into an AI tool such as ChatGPT, Claude or any of the others, it can be translated into regular English.
If you are close to forgiveness, be sure to consider the IBR plan as it is the one plan allowing for forgiveness right now. PAYE and ICR are under a halt per the 8th Circuit injunction pending a determination as to what happens at the end of the plan, and SAVE is definitely halted.
For those wondering what’s going on — collections restarts May 5. If you need help in figuring out what to do, please reach out to us (phone or Zoom) for a strategy session.
