A big deadline is coming up for people with federal student loans to be eligible for forgiveness. Borrowers with certain kinds of federal loans need to consolidate — effectively, refinance with the federal government — by Tuesday, April 30, to qualify for debt cancellation through two existing programs, Income-Driven Repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
The head of the Biden administration’s federal student aid office is stepping down from his post, the Education Department announced Friday – a move that comes amid ongoing chaos over glitches in the federal student aid application process that have prevented hundreds of thousands of students from filling out the critical form. Richard Cordray has
On Tuesday, a federal court dismissed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, made by a man who says he was given incorrect information that led him to not receive student debt cancelation under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. While the lawsuit focuses on one person’s grievance, the case highlights just
Photo: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 43 million Americans — one in five adults — collectively owe more than $1.7 trillion in federal and private student loans. In recent years, the idea of the government forgiving federal student debt went from fringe to mainstream, with both Donald Trump and Joe Biden using emergency
Politics By Victor Nava Published March 29, 2024, 6:12 p.m. ET Eleven Republican-led states have filed a lawsuit against President Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in an attempt to block the administration’s latest student loan debt cancellation plan. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Kansas federal court by the state’s Attorney General Kris Kobach, is
When faced with pleas to extend Connecticut’s free school meal program, leaders of the Appropriations Committee encouraged testifiers at a public hearing Tuesday to go back to their districts and tap into federal COVID relief funds. The committee chairs expressed resistance to H.B. 5510, a bill that would renew the $11.2 million program that has
Kate Dias, president of the largest teachers union in the state, the Connecticut Education Association, this week recalled a time in her teaching career when she bought Barbie dolls to make a lesson more engaging. One of her colleagues, she said, used Play-Doh to help create calculus models. For both projects, the money to purchase
Topline The Biden administration announced Friday it’s canceling approximately $5 billion in student debt relief, largely for public servants, the latest incremental step the White House has taken on student loan forgiveness, even though its more ambitious student loan relief program was thwarted by the Supreme Court. Community Center on January 18 in Raleigh, North