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Less Interest. Less Uncertainty. A Defined End.

JubileeLoan is a deterministic financing specification designed to provide a finite refinancing pathway for qualifying school loans that have exceeded 15 years in repayment. The specification establishes a fixed 1% annual interest rate and preserves the borrower’s existing monthly loan payment as the scheduled payment for the refinanced loan. Borrowers may voluntarily increase their payments or make additional principal payments at any time, allowing them to accelerate repayment without changing the underlying financing rules.

The specification limits the refinancing period to a maximum of 10 years, creating a defined endpoint for a debt that has already remained in repayment for more than 15 years. JubileeLoan is designed to prevent indefinite repayment through extensions, refinancing cycles, variable rates, or payment increases imposed by the loan originator. The borrower’s original repayment history remains part of the qualification record, preventing the refinancing process from resetting the 15-year threshold.

A defining feature of JubileeLoan is its mandatory debt-jubilee mechanism. If the refinanced loan reaches the 10-year maximum with an eligible balance still outstanding, the remaining balance must be declared a debt jubilee and permanently extinguished by the loan originator. This creates a deterministic terminal state in which the loan is either fully repaid or resolved through the jubilee mechanism, rather than remaining an indefinite financial obligation.

JubileeLoan uses a modular architecture with core modules for eligibility verification, loan verification, refinancing, payment preservation, fixed-rate interest, term limits, voluntary acceleration, debt jubilee, loan states, and transparency. Optional plugin modules can provide integrations for loan servicers, payment processors, government or private loan systems, verification, notifications, reporting, APIs, authentication, and data exports without altering the mandatory rules of the core specification.

This specification is released under the AGPL-3.0+ license and is free to use with required attribution. Attribution-free deployments may obtain a Specification Branding License, with fees based on usage, deployment scope, and environment size.