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student debt forgiveness

Published
August 29, 2024

‘All so confusing’: Student loan borrowers in limbo after courts halt popular plan

The dueling court cases seeking to overturn the Save repayment plan are creating a harmful ripple effect throughout the federal student loan system.
Published
July 18, 2024

Biden administration cancels another $1.2 billion in student loans for public service workers

The loans are being canceled through changes to an existing forgiveness program.
Published
May 1, 2024

Biden administration to clear $6.1 billion in debt of former Art Institutes students

The decision covers 317,000 borrowers who attended the defunct for-profit chain of schools from January 2004 to October 2017.
Published
April 8, 2024

Biden promotes ‘life-changing’ student loan relief in Wisconsin as he tries to rally young voters

The plan is smaller and more targeted than Biden's original plan, which was killed by the Supreme Court last year.
Published
April 5, 2024

Biden will unveil his new plan to give student loan relief to many new borrowers

The plan would expand federal student loan relief to new yet-targeted categories of borrowers through the Higher Education Act.

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Published
February 28, 2024

Why some student loan borrowers are locked out of Biden’s debt relief efforts

People are being shut out from student debt forgiveness initiatives through no fault of their own, and they are asking the Education Department for relief.
Published
January 12, 2024

Some Americans will get their student loans canceled in February as Biden accelerates new plan

Borrowers will be eligible for cancellation if they are enrolled in the new SAVE plan if they originally borrowed $12,000 or less to attend college, and if they have made at least 10 years of payments.
Published
October 4, 2023

U.S. forgiving more federal student loans that are ‘unsustainable debt’

In total, 3.6 million borrowers will have had $127 billion in debt wiped out since Biden took office.
Published
July 14, 2023

Biden administration announces $39 billion in student loan forgiveness

The Education Department said the plan will help more than 800,000 borrowers.
Published
July 2, 2023

Americans divided over landmark Supreme Court decisions in poll

Recent rulings by the Supreme Court, including last year’s decision on abortion rights, 'signal a dangerous creep towards authoritarianism and centralization of power,' Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York.