LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Student loan payments are back for millions, but so are scammers.
Millions of borrowers need to be on high alert, and 36-year-old Devin Virissimo is one of those. He works here at 8 News Now, and starting in August, he will begin paying back his loans.
“Honestly, it’s going to be like a whole car payment,” Virissimo said. “I’ve already started budgeting now.”
The pause on federal student loan payments, as a COVID-19 relief measure, ended nearly five years after it began.
Virissimo graduated from UNLV in 2021. He, like millions of others, received notification two months ago about the loans he needs to start paying off.
“Sitting about 25 thousand in student loans.”
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