{"id":734,"date":"2019-03-30T12:14:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T12:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/?p=734"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T12:18:18","slug":"need-help-managing-your-student-loan-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Need Help Managing Your Student Loan Debt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is struggling with student debt, there are free federal programs that can help reduce monthly payments and eventually lead to student loan forgiveness, but these lifeline programs are significantly under-enrolled. In an effort to help our members get access to these programs, United University Professions and the\u00a0American Federation of Teachers are proud to host a Student Debt Clinic which will provide information on how to take advantage of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We will be offering\u00a0<u>two<\/u>\u00a0Student Debt Clinics\u00a0on Thursday, April 11, 2019, in University Union West (UUW) Room 324\u00a0at the following times: 12pm\u20131:30pm and\u00a04:30pm\u20136:00pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To attend a Student Debt Clinic,\u00a0<strong>you must pre-register here<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aft.to\/StudentDebtClinicRSVP\">http:\/\/aft.to\/StudentDebtClinicRSVP<\/a>. From the \u201cstudent debt clinic\u201d drop-down menu, please select the UUP clinic that you are interested in attending \u2013 they are labeled \u201cUUP [Campus Name] [time] [date].\u201d In the affiliate field, type in the full name of our local (United University Professions).<\/p>\n<p>Registration is first come, first serve, and we must cap attendance for a single clinic at 50 participants in order to ensure that we are able to provide maximum assistance to attendees. We will serve refreshments at the clinics.<\/p>\n<p>Managing your student loan debt is the first step in taking on the inequities which plague our system of higher education. We look forward to seeing you, so\u00a0register now!<\/p>\n<p>In solidarity,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sean.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-735 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sean.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"25\" \/><br \/>\nS<\/a>ean G. Massey, Ph. D<br \/>\nUUP Chapter President<br \/>\nBinghamton University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues, If you or someone you know is struggling with student debt, there are free federal programs that can help reduce monthly payments and eventually lead to student loan forgiveness, but these lifeline programs are significantly under-enrolled. In an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/?p=734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}