Submitted by Scallion-Busy t3_11bqh2f in personalfinance
iceman2663 t1_j9z9fdv wrote
Sounds like you have approx $25k liquid cash between the emergency fund and the HYSA, which is a nice emergency buffer. I would recommend you continue taking advantage of the student loan payment pause by saving & investing as much as you can. Once payments resume, assuming you don’t have any projected major expenses in the short term, I would recommend assessing how much liquid savings you can apply towards the loans at once in a lump payment while still retaining at least 6 months of emergency fund at a minimum. After that, prioritize paying the remaining loan balance using the avalanche or snowball method until paid off.
Scallion-Busy OP t1_j9zbaft wrote
Thanks for the response. Yeah I’m leaning more toward continue aggressive savings and see what happens with this pause or “forgiveness”.
I did that last September 22’. Then I made a large lump sum payment right before loans started back up. And then they got paused again so I went back to saving up
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