Biden unveils new student debt plan for people with financial hardships
President Joe Biden's plans to forgive student debt have hit legal roadblocks. Now a new plan would look to help people experiencing financial hardships.
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President Joe Biden's plans to forgive student debt have hit legal roadblocks. Now a new plan would look to help people experiencing financial hardships.
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.
More than $345 million in debt will be forgiven for about 18,000 Pennsylvanians who attended The Art Institutes.
President Joe Biden unveiled a new plan that comes after the Supreme Court ruled against his previous debt-forgiveness program.
Earlier this week, the Biden administration announced $1.2 billion in forgiveness for 153,000 borrowers.
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Students are now free of $218,000 in total debt from the closed Pittsburgh Career Institute.
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.
The Education Department said it will begin notifying borrowers on Friday about the automatic discharge.
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The proposal comes as the Biden administration's plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student debt remains in limbo.
Some education experts see the plan as a more powerful tool to make college affordable than the proposal to slash or eliminate student debt for 40 million Americans, which is before the Supreme Court.
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The Department of Education's website now informs borrowers: "Student loan debt relief is blocked."
The program had already been on hold since the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay last month.
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