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Tag: U.S. Department of Education


Education, Industries

Are no-interest loans a simple fix to the student debt crisis?

August 23, 2022

Via: Education Dive

President Joe Biden continues to mull over possible variations of wide-scale student loan forgiveness, including one plan from the U.S. Department of Education that reportedly could cover several million borrowers. That would make good on a campaign pledge Biden made […]


Education, Industries

Feds to discharge $3.9B in ITT student loans, seek $24M repayment from DeVry

August 16, 2022

Via: Education Dive

Actions announced Tuesday are the latest in a complex set of steps the Biden administration has pursued to shore up the country’s troubled student loan system. They include proposed regulatory changes as well as attempts to clear out a backlog […]


Education, Industries

Consumer groups seek to force Ed Department to forgive Westwood College students’ loans

May 24, 2022

Via: Education Dive

The lawsuit is at least the second complaint filed against the Ed Department in recent months seeking to resolve outstanding group borrower defense claims. The borrower defense rule allows students whose institutions defrauded them to have their federal student loans […]


Education, Industries

Report can’t determine why thousands of student loans hadn’t been forgiven under Income-Driven Repayment

April 20, 2022

Via: Education Dive

The report from the GAO, an auditing agency for Congress, comes at a time of intense scrutiny of Income-Driven Repayment, or IDR, plans. The plans are intended to lower monthly payments for many federal student borrowers by basing them on […]