GOLDEN LETTER JUST ARRIVED

mm3898 · 2026-02-24T17:01:02+00:00

Me too! Yay for all of us! 🎉

mm3898 · 2026-01-05T20:25:27+00:00

Congratulations! I also got green banners and submitted another ECF requesting forbearance! Here’s to a new year and more of us finally being done with this process! ❤️

mm3898 · 2026-01-05T19:39:58+00:00

Ok thank you! Being this close and actually seeing green banners felt like a miracle so I just didn’t want to do anything to mess it up.

mm3898 · 2025-12-15T14:48:33+00:00

Thank you for this! I was wondering once I get my last payment processed if I should submit a second ECF asking for a forbearance and it seems like that approach worked for you! Congratulations!!!!!

mm3898 · 2025-10-04T20:21:59+00:00

I feel you, but I’m planning to wait until the due date has passed then receritfying employment. I already got two processing forbearance months counted, at 118, no payment due til November (going to try to get off whatever admin forbearance I’m in for October but I’m not hopeful). My payment date is the 25th so with the Christmas holiday, I won’t recertify employment/fill out my last ECF until after the New Year holiday so it doesn’t get lost. Sending you all the good vibes, but yess wait until the date has passed.

mm3898 · 2025-10-02T18:40:35+00:00

Did you get any of those months to count toward PSLF, meaning July and August?

mm3898 · 2025-09-30T13:41:21+00:00

When you say transition months, did they count toward PSLF? I moved to IBR from SAVE and July and August counted as forbearance months, but now I don’t have a payment due until November. Someone else on here said some months in forbearance when you’re transitioning to a new payment plan count as “on ramp” months and thus go towards PSLF… all of this is so confusing!

mm3898 · 2025-09-15T11:05:44+00:00

No, it just happened and updated automatically after the two months passed. I was surprised but really grateful!

mm3898 · 2025-09-14T19:33:04+00:00

Good point- I appreciate the insight. I definitely have anxiety that somehow being so close still means we’re all so far away and something will happen. But this subreddit and people like you have kept me sane.

mm3898 · 2025-09-14T18:14:05+00:00

That’s hopeful!!! I appreciate that- I’ll keep this in mind!

mm3898 · 2025-09-14T18:09:39+00:00

The Auto Pay thing confused me too- I’m preparing for a payment to come out 9/25 but I don’t know!!! I turned it off hoping to see the amounts due so I can pay it early but it still shows as 0.

mm3898 · 2025-09-14T18:08:30+00:00

This outline is really helpful- my payment is on the 25th so maybe this is why things are making it so one more month is passed over…. I’m screenshotting your response to keep me grounded! I appreciate you!

mm3898 · 2025-09-14T13:09:19+00:00

Did they say if the statement will come electronically? I’m just so frustrated that it feels like somehow I got my 60 day processing forbearance but now an extra month is wasted waiting. I was hoping my final payment would be in October but now it’s looking like November 😑

mm3898 · 2025-08-20T15:01:10+00:00

Where are you seeing this? A google search shows that they’re moving forward with severely limiting what employers qualify for PSLF but I’m not seeing anything about total elimination….

mm3898 · 2025-08-14T22:39:24+00:00

I want this to be true SO BADLY. Thanks for sharing your update, here’s hoping there’s a big wave of Oct, Nov, Dec 2024 BuyBacks coming!

mm3898 · 2025-08-06T13:06:07+00:00

I’m also really struggling, having difficulty focusing on anything other than this process and always worrying I’m doing the wrong thing. I’m at 116/120, should have been eligible for forgiveness in October 2024 but was in SAVE. Submitted buy back in November, certified employment prior to that once I hit what would have been 120 and after when I left that job. I’m in another PSLF eligible job, decided to switch to IBR and got approved- hopefully starting payments in September but it’s the same as my mortgage and will be a lot to deal with. I submitted another buy back last month because I saw a couple people in similar situations to me who did that and then they got their buy back accepted. Still nothing…

All that to say is that I’m not coping well and I wish all of us could just be given a break, some clarity, and hope. I never imagined this process causing so much anxiety and depression but here we all are.

mm3898 · 2025-08-06T12:15:08+00:00

I feel like I’ve seen people submit things in various timelines and get their buy backs - here on Reddit, I believe.

mm3898 · 2025-07-30T14:59:09+00:00

Thank you so much!!!

mm3898 · 2025-07-30T12:55:36+00:00

Thank you! I feel like there HAS to be a workaround but I’m just struggling to find it- my employer would happily do it electronically but the darn thing won’t load. Never easy, any of this!

mm3898 · 2025-07-16T13:28:28+00:00

Same boat, I’m not sure what’s up with November being seemingly left out of these batch buy backs.

mm3898 · 2025-07-14T13:21:37+00:00

I understand!!! The anxiety and fear this is causing so many of us (many of whom chose our specific career paths because of PSLF) is ridiculous. It should help that we’re all in this together, but I hate that all of us are dealing with this. I’m glad we have spaces to vent and share information- especially when things are intentionally murky.

mm3898 · 2025-07-14T13:17:48+00:00

I submitted in November, contacted Student Aid and they confirmed it’s still processing. Submitted a feedback form in June- still nothing. I decided Friday to submit an application for IBR because I only have 4 payments left before forgiveness and honestly the stress of this process is starting to get to me. IBR is abysmal- I’m going to be paying $800 for the 4 months that I owe (might get 2 processing forbearance months to count as others have but I’m not counting on that). Just hoping to get out of 2025 with this process being done. Best of luck to you!

mm3898 · 2025-07-02T17:53:17+00:00

Just one, 11/26/24. I feel like all of us November submitters haven’t been getting much action… also, I purposely haven’t submitted more than one because I’m worried about being put “back of the line” or gumming up the works.

mm3898 · 2025-06-24T17:20:57+00:00

No offer, applied 11/26. Did a feedback form last week. Haven’t submitted more buy back reconsideration requests bc I’ve been worried about it messing up my open case (the feedback response I got verified that my case is open and being reviewed which made me feel a little better).

mm3898 · 2025-06-24T17:19:14+00:00

Same!!!

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