New York Times: “Help Needed for Student Debtors”
The New York Times ran the editorial “Help Needed for Student Debtors” yesterday, reviewing the recently-released official two-year cohort default rates for fiscal year 2009. The rates show a sharp uptick in defaults, with 8.8 percent of student loan borrowers who entered repayment in 2009 defaulting by the end of 2010, up from 7 percent for those who entered repayment in 2008.
Following-up on an article that ran earlier in the week, the NYT Editorial Board also promotes the Income-Based Repayment program, that can help struggling borrowers remain in good standing, writing “the government needs to make sure that borrowers at risk of default have access to this program.”
