deferment

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It’s the reason so many student-loan borrowers find themselves trapped in cycles of deferment, forbearance or minimum payments that allow balances to balloon rather than shrink.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

But because borrowers with federal loans can choose from forbearance, deferment or income-driven repayment, it’s that much more challenging to prove undue hardship.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2025

And it credits borrowers for months they spent in deferment or in lengthy periods of forbearance.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2024

None has given a hard date, however, or said that there has been a deferment.

From Reuters • Oct. 23, 2023

As long as he was in school, he’d have a student deferment from the draft.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge