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ERIC Number: EJ349445
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Tying Student-Loan Repayments to Income: An Intriguing Idea That's Hard to Make Work.
Wilson, Robin
Chronicle of Higher Education, v33 n24 p24,25,28 Feb 25 1987
Concern about problems that inflexible educational loan payments cause for some people has reopened the idea of income-contingent repayment schedules, but financial aid experts see insurmountable problems in stretching out loans indefinitely, increasing indebtedness by slowing down payments, overall inequities favoring high-income borrowers, and high administrative costs. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Graduates, Costs, Debt (Financial), Federal Aid, Higher Education, Income, Income Contingent Loans, Interest (Finance), Loan Repayment, Money Management, Program Costs, Student Loan Programs, Student Responsibility
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General
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Language: English
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