Blog Post | September 15, 2011

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.”

Read the editorial and article