The impacted borrowers are people enrolled in the SAVE Plan.
The Biden administration will begin automatically relieving student debt for another 153,000 people on Wednesday, bringing the total number of Americans approved for debt relief to nearly 3.9 million.
President Joe Biden will tout the new debt relief in a speech from Los Angeles, and thousands of people will receive an email from the president informing them that they now qualify for relief.
“Congratulations — all or a portion of your federal student loans will be forgiven because you qualify for early loan forgiveness under my Administration’s SAVE Plan,” the email from the president will read.
The people receiving debt relief beginning Wednesday are those who enrolled in the newest student loan payment plan, called the SAVE Plan, which the Department of Education calls the most affordable plan for the majority of borrowers.
Anyone enrolled in the SAVE Plan who took out less than $12,000 in initial loans and has been paying them down for the past 10 years or more will have them forgiven.
I have almost qualified for student loan forgiveness so many times I lost count. Same as my wife, same as a lot of borrowers.
Biden is edging forgiveness at this point. Seriously, fuck means testing, fuck neoliberalism.
What, you don’t like the carrot of relief, a chance to maybe feel like you have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever getting ahead, dangled over your head 15 or 20 times over the last few years only to be snatched away every time?
The worst part is it started out from a place (I believe anyway) to genuinely help a lot of people, and now, like most political things, it seems to have been twisted to just cause more infighting.
If they wanted to help people the government would pay for college like they pay for the military. But they would rather prop up this lie where students are led to believe they are borrowing money from banks. When in reality, they are paying money to servicers who lend no money and these same servicers have no obligation to repay student debt back to the treasury.
It’s a really hard system to defend the more you learn where this money comes from.