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Feds: Thousands may have student debt that should be erased

A new federal report finds that record-keeping failures by the Education Department may have left thousands of Americans stuck with student debt that should have been forgiven

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2022

Biden administration moves to ease student loan debt burden

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is taking further steps to ease the burden of student loans, but new actions announced Tuesday were well short of what many Democrats want to see.

Tribune News Service · Apr 19, 2022

Biden administration moves to ease student loan debt burden - Roll Call

Changes are estimated to forgive student loans for 40,000 borrowers immediately, but some Democrats want Biden to go much farther.

Roll Call · Apr 19, 2022

President Biden extends student loan payment pause through Aug. 31, 2022

The Biden administration confirmed Wednesday morning that it has extended the federal student loan payment pause through Aug. 31, 2022, saying in a press release that this extension will allow for a “responsible phase-down of pandemic relief.”

Tribune News Service · Apr 6, 2022

What Biden’s 2023 budget means for the future of student loan forgiveness

On Monday, President Joe Biden unveiled his $5.8 trillion budget request for the 2023 fiscal year. Several of Biden’s larger proposals have been left out of the 2023 budget, including mass student loan forgiveness and free college. Still, while the budget request will be going through a lengthy negotiation process,…

Tribune News Service · Apr 4, 2022

Data of 820,000 NYC students compromised in hack of online grading system, officials say

NEW YORK — Personal data for roughly 820,000 current and former New York City public school students was compromised in the hack of a widely used online grading and attendance system earlier this year, city Education Department officials said Friday, revealing what could be the largest-ever breach of K-12 student…

Tribune News Service · Mar 26, 2022

Resumption of federal student loan payments would jolt delinquencies, Fed says

Federal student loan payments have been on pause since the pandemic began. That may soon end.

Axios · Mar 22, 2022

Has Biden quietly pushed back student loan payments again?

Education Department tells federal student loan servicers not to send repayment notices, according to reports

The Independent UK · Mar 9, 2022

More NSW students at home over virus fears

More people are opting to homeschool according to the NSW education department, who said most students who had not returned had "underlying health conditions".

AAP · Mar 2, 2022

Loan relief granted to students misled by for-profit DeVry

The Biden administration says it will cancel more than $70 million in student debt for borrowers who say they were defrauded by the for-profit DeVry University

The Independent UK · Feb 16, 2022