Forbearance questions

Started by kdburton
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kdburton

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I couldn't find this after a search on the forums... If your loans are in forbearance are you still able to make payments on them? I understand the alternative is to do IBR, but I have several lesser loans that don't qualify for IBR and with those monthly payments I'm not sure I can pay the IBR amount that medloans calculated for me in addition to all of my monthly living expenses. If I can't do IBR and thus have to do forbearance is it okay to make smaller payments during that time or would that disqualify me?