How Does the New REPAYE Plan Compare to Other Income-Driven Plans?

Today, the Department of Education announced a new income-driven repayment plan called Revised Pay As You Earn (REPAYE), which is expected to become available in December of this year. Under this new plan, all borrowers with federal Direct student loans will be able to cap their monthly payments at 10% of discretionary income, regardless of when they borrowed or their debt-to-income ratio.

REPAYE will become the fifth income-driven plan available to federal loan borrowers, and it can be hard to tell which plan does what and is available to whom. To help, we put together a high-level summary of the income-driven plans, including REPAYE.

See chart below and click here for a printable version with footnotes.

To find out more about REPAYE and the other student aid changes announced today, check out our press release here.