Although the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness program in late June, his administration has found ways to cancel more than $48 billion in debt since then.

The cancellations have come through existing federal student loan forgiveness programs, which are limited to specific categories of borrowers, such as public-sector workers, people defrauded by for-profit colleges, and borrowers who have paid for at least 20 years.

These programs are separate from the rejected forgiveness plan, which would have canceled about $430 billion of the $1.6 trillion of outstanding federal student loan debt all at one time.

The Biden administration has been granting student loan forgiveness through these existing programs on a rolling basis since coming into office and has discharged a total of $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million people to date.

  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Learn how the government works before you make a fool of yourself again, you ignorant child.

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        1 year ago

        Still, rather an oppressor that at least tries to help than one that doesn’t even do that.

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          1 year ago

          at least tries to help

          What you call ‘at least tries to help’ seems to be rather performative to me.