Fintech Startup Aimed To Help Undocumented Immigrants & Biden’s Backup Debt Relief Plan | Wealth Wednesday
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Welcome to a new weekly series we are launching on the Latin Wealth platform, Wealth Wednesday! On Wealth Wednesday, we will be discussing trending news, Latino culture and topics surrounding business, host by @chrisbelloso and @ricoramirez86.
On today's episode we discussed:
No SSN, no problem, says Maza, a fintech startup aimed at undocumented immigrants
- While there are a multitude of fintech companies offering digital banking services to a variety of demographics,
- there has been one segment of the population that historically has been underserved even more than others: the undocumented immigrant.
- Because undocumented immigrants don’t have Social Security numbers, it can be very difficult to access traditional banking services.
- A startup called Maza has set out to help solve that problem.
Biden's Backup Plan Could Bring Student Debt Relief to Millions
- President Joe Biden's new student loan forgiveness backup plan, called Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE),
- hopes to find a different way to bring debt relief to millions of borrowers following the Supreme Court's ruling
Other points
- ALL borrowers can apply IF you have an undergraduate loan
- limit monthly payment to 5% discretionary income (was 10%)
- To require for $0 montly payments if you make less than $32,805 a year ($15/hr)
- loan forgiven after 10 years of payments (was 20 years) if original balance was less than $12,000
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