student loan repayment plan (slrp)
What is SLRP?
The National Guard values higher education and offers many types of assistance to help you stay on track while you serve. The Student Loan Repayment Program (SLRP) is available to Soldiers and officer candidates (09S) who have one or more qualifying and disbursed Title IV federal loan(s).
- The loans must be listed on the Department of Education National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) aid summary website.
- Federal Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students (PLUS) that are in the name of anyone other than the Soldier applying for the SLRP program are not eligible for repayment.
- State and private loans are not eligible for repayment under the SLRP.
Eligibility
If you are a non-prior service (NPS) Soldier, you are eligible for the SLRP as a stand-alone incentive to include enlisting under the Split Training Option and/or Civilian Acquired Skills Program (CASP) options, provided you meet the following requirements:
- Enlist for a minimum six-year term of service.
- Enlist for a critical skills (CS) vacancy in the grade of E-4 or below.
- Enlist into a qualifying position in most units (check with your recruiter for more details).
- Score a minimum of 50 on the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT).
- Must not be enlisting as a 09R Simultaneous Membership Program (SMP) cadet.
- Must not be enlisting in the Recruit Force Pool or Active First Programs.
- Must not be enlisting as a glossary non-prior service (GNPS) Soldier.
If you are a prior service Soldier, you are eligible for the SLRP as a stand-alone incentive, provided you meet the following requirements:
- Enlist for a minimum six-year term of service.
- Enlist/affiliate in the grade of E-7 or below.
- Enlist/affiliate into a qualifying position in most units. Check with your recruiter for details.
- Must have previously completed Army or Marine Corps Basic Combat Training (BCT) or complete Army BCT within 365 days from the date of enlistment, if you previously served in the Air Force, Navy or Coast Guard. Exception: A Soldier who previously served in special operations in the Air Force or Navy.
- Must have less than 16 years' time in service (TIS) upon enlistment/affiliation in the National Guard.
- Must be Duty Military Occupational Specialty Qualified (DMOSQ) for your position.
- Must not have previously received the SLRP in your military career.
- Must not have previously received a Guaranteed Reserve Forces Duty (GRFD) ROTC scholarship.
- Must not be enlisting as a non-09S SLRP Officer Candidate School (OCS) or as a 09R SMP cadet (except for the 09S SLRP option).
- Must have scored a minimum of 31 on the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT).
- Must not be enlisting under the provisions of a conditional release from a Select Reserve component other than the U.S. Army Reserve.
If you are a current Guard member, you are eligible for the SLRP incentive, provided you meet the following requirements:
- Must meet all re-enlistment or extension eligibility criteria.
- Must extend within 365-91 days of your ETS for a minimum six-year term of service.
- Must re-enlist or extend in the grade of E-7 or below. NOTE: Acceptance of promotion to E-8 after the contract start date is authorized.
- Must be Duty Military Occupational Specialty Qualified (DMOSQ) for your position.
- Must have less than 13 years' TIS at time of current ETS.
- Must not be in Mil-Tech status (includes an indefinite technician and temporary technician on assignment for more than 180 days in any continuous 12-month period). This includes a Mil-Tech Soldier in certain statuses while deployed.
- Must not be in AGR status. This includes an AGR Soldier in a TPU status while deployed.
- Must not be an officer who contracted for this incentive as an enlisted applicant.