Biden Plans Could Cancel Student Unpaid Loan Debt Interest
If approved and implemented, the administration’s new plans could cancel up to $20,000 in interest regardless of income, plus more for specific borrowers.
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If approved and implemented, the administration’s new plans could cancel up to $20,000 in interest regardless of income, plus more for specific borrowers.
An administrative process used by federal agencies during which a proposed rule is debated and developed by relevant interest groups and agency representatives.
The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will seek to give student debt forgiveness to those experiencing “hardship” in the president’s latest plan for debt relief. The hardship category is one of five in Biden’s new student debt relief plan that is going through the negotiated rulemaking process, where relevant stakeholders come together to discuss…
The negotiated rulemaking process now underway could take months or years to result in a policy that leads to widespread student loan forgiveness.
It recently took the Education Department 15 months to finish the same process it's using to implement the new student-debt-relief plan.