{"id":713362,"date":"2026-06-19T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713362\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:23:11","slug":"the-discount-for-student-loan-payers-who-enroll-in-autopay-just-went-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713362\/","title":{"rendered":"The discount for student loan payers who enroll in autopay just went up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SCPXDWHO3JGONCG3SKTAKJ5MLM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Trump administration is promising student loan borrowers a greater incentive to sign up for autopay: a hefty discount on their debt. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GUVSRNQMRJFKVKDQFU6Y5DT2XY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">On Thursday, the Education Department said people who opt to have their student loan payments automatically withdrawn from their bank accounts will qualify for a discount of 1 percentage point on the interest rate, up from the standard 0.25 percentage point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration is promising student loan borrowers a greater incentive to sign up for autopay: a hefty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-713362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}