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7 May, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Wide-eyed, fresh out of college and tens of thousands of dollars in debt. It’s a reality many 22-year-olds face.

At 27, Ashley Keimach paid off $23,000 of student loans in half the expected time. Here’s how she did it. businessinsider.com/paid-off-stude…
To pay off her debt faster, Keimach worked on getting raises at her job. As her salary increased, she'd funnel the additional cash towards her loans, paying down the principal.

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Whenever Keimach received extra money or a raise, she would automatically put that extra cash towards loans instead of impulse buys.

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Since March 2020, federal student loan payments have been paused and interest rates set to 0% because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keimach saw this as an opportunity.
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Sign up for Insider’s first event in our #MasterYourMoney series, presented by @Fidelity, on May 18 to hear a live discussion on how to take control of credit and debt to build wealth in the long term.

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