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Sarah | $500

Happy holidays Betsy and the TISLA staff! I wanted to share with you that, thanks to your expert advice on Reddit and your site, my mom qualified and was forgiven under PSLF this year. She was able to: 1) get her loans forgiven, 2) avoid payments during the COVID pause, and 3) qualify for refunds on previous payments. You saved us over $90,000 and enabled her to retire in 2022. Simply put, you changed her life and mine too. Wishing you the happiest of holidays, happy New Year, and here’s to a good 2023! All the best, Sarah

Cat

Thank you Betsy!! I used Reddit and found the PSLF subreddit. Last week forgiven and this week 000 on studentaid.gov. I hope this helps someone else.

Amanda | $50

Cannot thank you enough

Jennifer Coonan | $100

Thank you for providing such an important service!

Meg | $25

Ryan Long | $50

Ashley | $50

Came from Reddit - I hope this still reaches people as you do amazing work!

Meredith | $50

The TISLA kept my sanity during the craziest, most terrifying times of my life. I can never fully express my gratitude.

Anonymous | $20

Came from reddit!

Amalia | $25

Saw the reddit post of Betsy helping out. Thank you for all the work you do!!

Wayne | $25

Thanks for helping anyone you can... here from reddit

Laurie L | $10

Saw you on Reddit. Thanks for all you do!

Aaron | $20

"The Lord’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed." Deuteronomy 15:2

Craig | $10

I know helping randos on Reddit might not seem important, but I honestly didn't know about your organization until I saw that post today. Please keep it up, there's an entire generation of people out there who were scammed and are trapped by that scam. Your work helps set them free - and yeah, they're all on Reddit lol.

Anonymous | $30

From a redditor!

Sarah | $10

You're doing such great things for people and I couldn't not be happier about a donation.

Anonymous | $10

Just another redditor humbled by your organization's kindness.

Tiffany | $10

Came from Reddit. Amazing work!! Changing lives, literally. Thank you!

Diana | $100

Saw on Reddit. Keep up the good work!

Joe | $10

Saw this on Reddit, had no idea this organization existed. Thank You!

Thien | $10

Came from Reddit. Betsy a real one!

Anonymous | $1,000

Thank you for what you do!

Holly | $75

I saw what Betsy did for a redditor! How amazing that we have people like that who are so knowledgeable and willing to help. Super happy to be able to support this organization.

Carla Tam | $5

I saw on reddit that Betsy helped the retired teacher with the$10k loan that turned into a million dollar debt. I don't understand how that was legal for them to charge that even after she had garnishments from her wages for 10 years and she still owed a million dollars?! From a 10k loan?! I can't believe the government allows that. Thank you Betsy for helping her.

Anonymous | $50

Thank you for all that you do!

Anonymous

Thank you from a Reddit user

Anonymous | $250

Our family has very large student loans, which we're extremely lucky to be able to manage. In figuring out how all of this works and our options, we've watched Betsy on /r/studentloans help literally hundreds of people at no charge, including the woman where she recently saved an impossible to pay bill of almost $1 million. Your work is really, no exaggeration, changing people's lives and in some cases, possibly even saving them. Thank you for all of your incredible work!

Bryan | $400

Nicole Pandolfo | $25

Joshua | $887

You're great! While I didn't have any direct advice from you, your disseminated knowledge absolutely filtered to me.