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
Be realistic about what your terms are — and make sure you understand conditions for repayment, deferment and forgiveness.
From Salon • Sep. 22, 2024
In 1968, at age 22, he got a medical deferment for having bone spurs in his heels.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2024
Lvova-Belova in her Friday statement said that Yermokhin was only being summoned for record-keeping purposes and rejected claims that the teenager could be conscripted, saying that as a college student, he had a deferment.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 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
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