I graduated with a large amount of student loan debt from XXXX XXXX in XXXX, MA in 2009. Since graduation I have put my private loans in deferment and paid interest only payments for the past 6 years. Now, Navient is requesting that I pay {$1500.00} a month to pay off the rest of the loan. I told their customer service department I could not afford and they said well you can pay an extended payment rate of {$850.00}. I asked if the payment could be further lowered where I have spoken to several representatives. They first told me that I could do the {$850.00} payment only and nothing lower, then told me that might co-signer on XXXX of the loans would also need to call in for approval. When I called back they said that I made too much money to have the terms extended and that my basic life necessities left me with about {$1700.00} a month to work with, but their math only took very basic necessities into consideration. They said that their is now an approval process to lower my payment to {$850.00} but that I will almost certainly be denied, given how much I make. Given that my work is in freelance film and television production, I have to keep some amount of savings because while I work steadily there are times of the year I can not work. I have offered Navient a couple of times now a reasonable amount I can pay and they will not accept anything but the {$1500.00} a month, which roughly half of my paycheck every month. I am willing to pay them and I want to make a reasonable monthly payment but they told me that the only way I would have more options to repay my loan is if I went delinquent on my payments, which is something I do not want to do. I do not understand why they would want to make the situation more difficult and not try to work out a reasonable plan. I am at a loss for what to do about this.