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Education Department to pause student loan payments for millions amid legal battle

PUBLISHED FRI, JUL 19 20246:34 AM EDTUPDATED FRI, JUL 19 20247:57 AM EDT

 

KEY POINTS

The U.S. Department of Education says it will pause millions of student loan borrowers payments while it defends its relief plan against legal challenges.

Borrowers enrolled in the Biden administration’s new repayment plan, known as SAVE, will be placed “in an interest-free forbearance,” according to a statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona.

 

The U.S. Department of Education says it will pause millions of student loan borrowers’ payments while it defends its relief plan against legal challenges.

 

Borrowers enrolled in the Biden administration’s new repayment program, known as SAVE, will be placed “in an interest-free forbearance,” according to a statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona.

 

A federal appeals court in Missouri issued a ruling on Thursday blocking the entire plan, which the White House says roughly 8 million people are enrolled in.

 

Lawsuits by Republican-led states, including Arkansas, Florida and Missouri, argue that the Biden administration overstepped its authority with SAVE, or Saving on a Valuable Education, and essentially was trying to find a roundabout way to forgive student debt after the Supreme Court blocked its sweeping plan in June 2023.

 

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, wrote Thursday on X that the ruling against SAVE was a “HUGE win for every American who still believes in paying their own way.”

 

“The Court granted our emergency motion to BLOCK Joe Biden’s entire illegal student loan plan, which would have saddled working Americans with half-a-trillion dollars in Ivy League debt,” Bailey wrote.

 

Just 0.3% of federal student borrowers attended Ivy League colleges, according to an estimate by higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. (Why does that matter? Everyday Americans should not have to pay off student loan debt!)

 

FUCK JOE BIDAN

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/19/education-department-to-pause-save-student-loan-payments-amid-legal-battle.html