While the rate level is set by a pre-determined formula, the Obama administration was able to retroactively reset interest rates through a bipartisan effort in 2013.
It isn’t just students. Interest rates in general were raised from their historic lows after the 2008 recession into the 2020 recession in order to fight inflation. Debt consolidation and refinances were hot hot hot in 2020/21.
This is also why it is easy to find a savings account with 5% interest today. Something that has been unheard of for nearly two decades.
yeah I payed late 90’s rates which we are still below. my costs were way below though. I don’t think I would have went to college if I was coming out of high school today. I mean a four year anyway.
It isn’t just students. Interest rates in general were raised from their historic lows after the 2008 recession into the 2020 recession in order to fight inflation. Debt consolidation and refinances were hot hot hot in 2020/21.
This is also why it is easy to find a savings account with 5% interest today. Something that has been unheard of for nearly two decades.
yeah I payed late 90’s rates which we are still below. my costs were way below though. I don’t think I would have went to college if I was coming out of high school today. I mean a four year anyway.