Biden Announces New Rules to Make Millions More Eligible for Student Debt Relief

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The proposed rules, if finalized, would bring the total number of borrowers eligible for debt forgiveness to more than 30 million to date.

President Joe Biden announced new rules on July 31 that make millions more borrowers eligible for student loan debt relief.

โ€œToday, my Administration took another major step to cancel student debt for approximately 30 million Americans,โ€ Biden said.

โ€œWe wonโ€™t stop fighting to provide relief to student loan borrowers, fix the broken student loan system, and help borrowers get out from under the burden of student debt.โ€

Starting on Aug. 1, the Department of Education (DOE) will send emails to all borrowers with at least one outstanding federal student loan with updates on potential debt relief and a notice of the Aug. 30 deadline to call and opt out if they arenโ€™t interested in the program. The email does not guarantee eligibility.

The department will finalize the rules this fall, based on the administrationโ€™s existing work to provide $168 billion in student loan relief to nearly 4.8 million borrowers. If the rules are finalized as proposed, the number of borrowers eligible for student loan relief will climb to more than 30 million, including those already approved.

โ€œThese latest steps will mark the next milestone in our efforts to help millions of borrowers whoโ€™ve been buried under a mountain of student loan interest, or who took on debt to pay for college programs that left them worse off financially, those who have been paying their loans for twenty or more years, and many others,โ€ DOE Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.

The administration released its first set of draft rules in April, directing Cardona to grant further student loan debt relief to tens of millions of borrowers nationwide, including those with balances growing from years of interest.

If finalized, the rules would allow Cardona to provide partial or full debt relief to borrowers who owe more than they did at the start of repayment, those who have been in repayment for more than 20 years, those eligible for loan forgiveness but havenโ€™t yet applied, and those enrolled in low-financial value programs.

By Jacob Burg

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