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Biden administration forgives another $1.2 billion in student loans
About 1 in 10 people with student loans have gotten debt relief, according to the Biden administration.
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About 1 in 10 people with student loans have gotten debt relief, according to the Biden administration.
Total student loan debt in the U.S. is now nearly $1.8 trillion, and experts say young people are delaying buying homes and starting families because of it. So, what could the lives of students look like when they graduate debt-free?
The Biden administration says it has now wiped away $167 billion of student loans for 4.75 million people, or 1 in every 10 borrowers.
The Biden administration said it's erasing debt for people who attended the for-profit Art Institutes, which shut down in September.
President Joe Biden unveiled a new plan that comes after the Supreme Court ruled against his previous debt-forgiveness program.
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President Biden said that of the borrowers who can get their loans forgiven, nearly 44,000 are teachers, nurses, firefighters and others who are eligible for forgiveness after working 10 years of public service.
This latest $4.8 billion in relief brings the grand total of approved debt cancellation by the administration to $132 billion for over 3.6 million Americans.
As student loan repayments restart in October, the Biden administration said 125,000 people with student loans will have their debt erased.
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The Education Department said it will begin notifying borrowers on Friday about the automatic discharge.
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Borrowers are now facing double whammy after high court rules against Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program.
President Joe Biden vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have repealed his plan to forgive student debt.
Millions of student loan borrowers could see up to $20,000 of their debt canceled depending on the outcome of Tuesday's US Supreme Court hearing on President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program.
The Supreme Court is meeting Tuesday to hear two cases challenging President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.
In Florida, there are about 2.6 million borrowers with a federal student loan debt of about $100.9 billion
The proposal comes as the Biden administration's plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student debt remains in limbo.
The Biden administration had earlier extended a repayment pause while its student-debt relief program remains tied up in court.
A Biden administration program forgiving up to $20,000 in student loans remains hung up in court.
With the possibility of getting up to $20K forgiven tied up in the courts, experts list some steps borrowers can take.
The head of the Education Department pledged Saturday to keep "moving full speed ahead" on plans to implement President Joe Biden's student debt relief program, coming a day after a federal appeals court put a temporary hold on it, barring the administration from canceling loans covered under the policy while it's under review.
Gov. DeSantis has criticized the plan as "unfair" to people who have paid off loans
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