Yet the Departments of Education and Justice are contradicting themselves.
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Will Biden Rescue Vulnerable Student Borrowers From Default?
The president can relieve 7.3 million student debtors from default, benefiting their credit scores and avoiding wage garnishment. He hasn’t committed to doing it.
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Start Governing and Good Things Happen
The Education Department’s changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program can serve as a powerful lesson.
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Bureaucracy Jams Up Student Debt Relief for Disabled Borrowers
Recently announced student debt forgiveness for ‘totally and permanently disabled’ people leaves many at the mercy of a bureaucratic and somewhat random process.
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Student Loan Pause Extended. Next Stop, Cancellation?
The authority to forgive student debt is the same as the authority to pause payments. There’s no excuse not to move forward.
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For Student Debtors, Time’s Running Out
In just three months, the student loan payment moratorium is scheduled to come to an end. Borrowers are starting to panic.
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Student Loan Servicing Companies Shouldn’t Exist
And Rich Cordray, now running the office of Federal Student Aid, could help make that a reality. It would even help with the cancellation of student debt.
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New Hope for Student Debt Relief
Richard Cordray can make the Education Department’s federal aid office work on behalf of students again.
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The Education Department’s Slow-Walk on Student Debt
Activists are frustrated by a lack of action, and not just on mass cancellation.
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Fighting For-Profit Colleges, or Collaborating With Them?
A former for-profit college network executive is pushing to be named to run a key federal student loan office.
