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The new strategy comes months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an ambitious earlier White House plan that would have provided up to $20,000 in loan forgiveness per borrower. That plan ...
The Biden administration discharged another $4.9 billion in student loan debt for more than 73,600 borrowers, the Education Department announced. That brings the total amount discharged since ...
President Joe Biden announced another round of student loan debt forgiveness Thursday, totaling $1.2 billion for 35,000 public-sector workers like teachers, nurses and firefighters.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program is a United States government program that was created under the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 signed into law by President George W. Bush to provide indebted professionals a way out of their federal student loan debt burden by working full-time ...
The William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (also called FDLP, FDSLP, and Direct Loan Program) provides "low-interest loans for students and parents to help pay for the cost of a student's education after high school. The lender is the U.S. Department of Education ... rather than a bank or other financial institution." [ 1]
The US first major government loan program was the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), formed in 1973. [20] [clarification needed] Before 2010, federal loans included: loans originated and funded directly by the Department of Education (ED) government guaranteed loans originated and funded by private investors.
The White House has announced a new $7.4 billion round of student loan cancellations, relieving nearly 277,000 borrowers of their debt. The latest attempt to chip away at the amount owed for ...
In March 2024, the Biden administration announced that it would forgive $5.8 billion in student loan debt to 78,000 borrowers under the PSLF program, [128] and then an additional $7.4 billion in student loan debt for 277,000 borrowers from additional changes to the PSLF program the next month, which brought the total dollar amount of student ...