Meet a borrower in the Navy who just got $323,000 in student loans forgiven and said public service was 'the only way' he could have paid off his debt

• Jared Weegmann, 37, got $323,000 in student loans forgiven through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
• He said that he would not have been able to pay off the debt had he not enlisted in the Navy.
• His success story is rare — many borrowers have struggled to get relief through the program.

Jared Weegmann no longer has a six-figure student-debt load hanging over his head.

After getting his undergraduate degree from a public Florida college, Weegmann, 37, decided he wanted to go to law school — and the only way he could do so financially was by taking out student loans. But after graduating University of Miami's law school in 2012 with around $200,000 in debt, the most important thing for him at the time was getting rid of that debt one way or the other.