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Biden Administration Cancels $66 Billion in Student Loan: Check If You're Eligible

The US Department of Education has canceled over $66 billion in student loan debt for over 2 million borrowers. Learn more about the debt relief already granted and how to know if you qualify for it.
UPDATED JAN 22, 2024
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Karolina Grabowska
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The US Department of Education has already canceled more than $66 billion in education under existing programs. The move has benefited over 2 million borrowers, which includes defrauded college students and those who work within the public sector. While advocates appreciate the government's efforts, they are worried about resuming federal student loan payments without deeper debt cancellation. 

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Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

As mentioned by Iowa State University, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) software allows high-quality nonprofit and government employees to have their federal scholar loans canceled after 10 years or 120 payments.

The Education Department announced that it has approved $42 billion in loan cancellation under the PSLF program for more than 615,000 borrowers since October 2021. Recent policy changes have increased the number of borrowers who have benefited from the program. The best way to find out if your job qualifies as public service is to fill out the employer certification form. Borrowers must keep a record of their confirmed qualifying payments.

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Defrauded Borrowers

According to CNBC, the Biden administration has been canceling debts of students who say their colleges misled them. Over the last few years, around 1 million people have had their debt relieved through the borrower defense loan discharge, for a total of $13.3 billion in relief.

Generally, a borrower can also additionally qualify for debt cancelation below the supply if their university engaged in misconduct, inclusive of supplying fake or deceptive records approximately their application or process placement rates. If you attended one of the colleges listed on the Project on Predatory Lending at Harvard University and applied for a borrower protection mortgage discharge on or earlier than June 22, 2022, you are entitled to computerized relief, even in case your software changed into formerly denied.

Eligible debtors will in all likelihood get the cancellation no later than January 28, 2024.

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Image Source: Pexels/Max Fischer

Total and Permanent Disability Discharge

Around 425,000 federal pupil mortgage debtors have had their debt forgiven through Total and Permanent Disability Discharge, for a complete $9.1 billion in debt erased, according to the Education Department data. The provision is for debtors with disabilities that makes it hard or not possible for them to work. More debtors with disabilities were provided relief after the Education Department started using records from the Social Security Administration and US Department of Veterans Affairs to identify eligible beneficieries and to automatically grant the cancellation.

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The Education Department has also done away with the three-year monitoring period of the program, which caused more than half of all approved borrowers to get their loans reinstated. Even if a borrower isn't taken into consideration as disabled through every other authorities agency, a medical doctor or nurse practitioner will also be capable of making the case that they qualify for the discharge.

Sweeping Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

Beyond these programs, millions of Americans are looking forward to the Supreme Court's decision on President Joe Biden's sweeping plan to cancel up to $20,000 in pupil debt . The plan will wipe out $400 billion in debt.

If the Biden administration can carry out its plan, borrowers who already received debt cancellation under one of the above programs and have no remaining debt, won't be affected. If you continue to have student loans, you can qualify for the vast forgiveness of $10,000 or $20,000.Borrowers with questions on their eligibility for mortgage forgiveness need to get touch in their servicer or the Education Department.



 

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