What if I'm eligible for a deferment or forbearance?
In that case you can temporarily suspend your payments.
How can you provide relief to student loan borrowers during the COVID-19 national emergency?
To achieve this, federal student loan borrowers are automatically being placed in an administrative forbearance, which allows you to temporarily stop making your monthly loan payments. This suspension of payments will last from March 13, 2020 , through Sept. 30, 2020, but you can still make payments if you choose.