Student Loans Pros And Cons

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With many students having exceedingly high student loans to pay back after graduation, it can sometimes be very frustrating having to use hard earned paychecks to pay for utilities, food, and other necessitates as well as student loans. Most of the time, students loan payments far exceed the amount of one’s annual paycheck earning. Social workers often have school loan debt that exceeds their annual salary. NASW collects stories of loan debt to assist in our efforts to advocate for loan forgiveness for social workers (National Association of Social Workers). The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), is promoting loan forgiveness for social workers as part of its on-going work to improve working conditions, salaries, and other benefits …show more content…

Although the NASW is a proud advocate of student loan debt forgiveness, it is not eligible to actually offer debt forgiveness to students. However, the NASW does in fact allow the presentation of scholarships to students who are eligible in order to help students with their student loans (National Association of Social Workers). While there limited ways social workers can receive student loan forgiveness, there are at least three federally authorized loan forgiveness programs available to social workers: College Cost Reduction Act of 2007, National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, and Higher Education Act, which will all be covered in the proceeding paragraphs (National Association of Social …show more content…

The goal of the National Health Service Corps is to expand access to healthcare services and improve the health of people who live in urban and rural areas where healthcare is scarce. If one is not able to complete the entire two years of practice, up to $25,000 is available for those who agree to practice half-time (Funding Details: National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program - Rural Assistance