How the Supreme Court's student loan relief ruling affects borrowers
The Biden administration's flagship student loan relief plan has 8 million participants. Here's what they should know about the Supreme Court's decision.
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The Biden administration's flagship student loan relief plan has 8 million participants. Here's what they should know about the Supreme Court's decision.
About 1 in 10 people with student loans have gotten debt relief, according to the Biden administration.
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.
About 78,000 people will receive an email from President Joe Biden telling them that their loans are canceled. Here's what to know.
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The Department of Education will automatically forgive student debt for borrowers who meet a few conditions. Here's who.
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.
The Biden administration has launched a new program to help people who are set to restart making student loan payments in October. The new program called 'SAVE' is an income-driven repayment program and the new plan will be available to many borrowers with loans held by the Department of Education. This comes following the Supreme Court's striking down of President Biden's previous student loan forgiveness program in late June.
Some borrowers who had enrolled in income-driven repayment plans will start getting their debt discharged this week.
The new income-driven repayment plan could cut borrowers' monthly payments in half, while some could see their monthly payments go down to $0.
The Education Department said it will begin notifying borrowers on Friday about the automatic discharge.
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.
Financial future of 40 million Americans hangs in balance as high court weighs Biden plan to forgive up to $20K per borrower.
Painfully high inflation is putting even more pressure on Americans struggling to repay their college loans.
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.
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.
A second federal appeals court has rejected the Biden administration's attempt to allow debt relief to continue while courts rule on it.
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