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Following a judge’s ruling last week, the Biden administration now has several more months to implement student loan forgiveness under a landmark settlement agreement.

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Biden administration has already used the new rules to forgive $130 million in student loans for 7,400 borrowers from a for-profit Colorado college. Additional loan discharges will be on hold until a court weighs the rule’s legality. A federal appeals court has blocked the latest version of U.S. Education Department rules that allow borrowers to apply for relief from their student debt if their college or university misled them or violated certain state laws.

Key House Democratic leaders are calling again on the Education Department to withdraw 2011 guidance that allowed for revenue-sharing agreements between online program managers and institutions of higher education.

The U.S. Department of Education can proceed delivering $6 billion in student loan forgiveness to defrauded students, after Supreme Court’s decision.

The Supreme Court refused a request to block a $6 billion settlement that will cancel the student loans of about 200,000 borrowers who say they were defrauded by their schools.

WASHINGTON -- For decades, a lesser-known program for federal student loan recipients has allowed borrowers to assert a defense to repayment if a school misled them or broke state law. But under President Joe Biden, the Department of Education has increased its processing of borrower defense applications, overhauled the regulations governing the program and used it to cancel billions in debt for people who attended for-profit schools accused of defrauding students.

Under President Joe Biden, the Education Department has ramped up processing borrower defense applications, overhauled the regulations governing the program and used it to cancel billions in debt for people who attended for-profit schools accused of defrauding students.

The agency has forgiven billions of dollars in student loans for borrowers whose schools closed before they finished their degrees, as part of an Obama-era program. Biden’s debt relief plan still awaits a decision from the Supreme Court.