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President-elect Joe Biden will extend the current pause on the student loan forbearance program on his first day in office, according to his transition official.
Biden supports Congress forgiving $10,000 in student loan debt for each person, but he has not provided a timeframe to do so.
Lawmakers and Biden disagree on whether Biden can use executive powers to cancel student debt.
President-elect Joe Biden plans to prioritize federal student loan debt forgiveness on the first day of his presidency, but questions still remain on the likelihood of carrying out his forgiveness plans.
Last week, Biden s transition official David Kamin told reporters that Biden will direct the Department of Education on day one to extend the student loan forbearance program, which is the first direct promise the president-elect has made in combating the $1.6 trillion student debt crisis.
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President-elect Joe Biden cast doubt on a popular Democratic idea involving executive action that would cancel up to $50,000 in federally-held student loan debt for roughly 43 million American borrowers.
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December 15, 2020
Photo Credits: Justin Han / Aggie File. King Hall is home to the School of Law at UC Davis.
The UC system’s support for immigrant students aims to help them through changing legislation and administrations
In 2015, the UC system began an initiative to provide legal services for immigrants directly through the school. Operating out of UC Davis’s law school, the UC Immigrant Legal Services Center (UCIMM) has been able to help students and their immediate families with legal services related to immigration and has inspired other higher education institutions to do the same.
The UCIMM has branches at all UC campuses, each of which have legal fellows, like Ariel Bailey at UC Davis, who shared some of the legal services that she and the other fellows provide for UC students.