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AOC swings at the White House for weighing only $10,000 in student debt relief: 'We can do better'
Ocasio-Cortez said the meager student loan relief amount risks backfiring on Biden by angering just…
Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey…
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Major union leaders call on Biden to enact 'robust' student-loan forgiveness for everyone, no matter how much they make
The Biden administration seems to be gearing up to forgive $10,000 for borrowers making under $150,…
Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden is on the verge of canceling at least $10,000 in student loans — but that doesn't mean borrowers will get relief right away
By excluding higher earners from relief, Biden could be creating a bureaucratic nightmare and "pape…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Ayelet S…
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Employers helped pay off student loans for 4% of workers — and the ones who make the most money were most likely to see relief
If you want your employer to pay off or help relieve your student loan debt, you probably want to b…
Juliana Kaplan
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Meet a 37-year-old with a student-loan bill $30,000 higher than when she graduated from college in 2008: 'I have a good job and no kids, but I have this debt'
Shanna Bennett chose a career in business psychology thinking she'd make enough to pay her debts. N…
Jason Lalljee
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Student-loan companies aren't prepared to restart payments in October, which could be a 'financial catastrophe' for borrowers, senators say
Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey urged an extension of a student-loan payment pause through at least …
Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden is teasing a coming decision on student-loan forgiveness. Here's everything we know about how it could look.
Instead of relief for all borrowers, so far, Biden has focused on targeted groups like borrowers w…
Jason Lalljee,Ayelet Sheffey
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Mark Cuban supports Biden's proposal to forgive $10,000 in student debt per borrower as long as 'ridiculous tuition fees' are addressed alongside it: 'We don't want this being a perennial problem'
Cuban previously said canceling debt is "the worst thing you can do," but told Insider he now suppo…
Jason Lalljee,Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden's White House fears canceling student debt will drive inflation even higher and that restarting loan payments might help avoid that
Biden is set to soon make a decision on broad student-loan forgiveness. Some economists fear the mo…
Ayelet Sheffey,Ben Winck
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The first student-debt relief email update just went out from Biden's Education Department
On Thursday, the Department of Education sent out its first email update on student debt relief. Bo…
Jacob Zinkula
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Dave Ramsey says student loans are 'horrible and evil' and 'we should stop making them' — but he doesn't believe in forgiving debt
"It's intellectually dishonest for politicians to run around talking about forgiving student loans …
Ayelet Sheffey,Jason Lalljee
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Meet a 34-year-old with $250,000 in student debt after 13 years of barely keeping up with her monthly interest payments: 'I never felt like I could get a handle on it'
Janell Tryon didn't know the interest on her student loans would stack up so quickly. She now owes …
Jason Lalljee
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Biden's student-debt relief reform plans are paving the way for an 'untold amount about to be billed to the American people,' GOP House lawmakers say
As Biden's broad student-debt relief stalls, House Republicans on the education committee criticize…
Ayelet Sheffey
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$50 billion of student debt could be entitled to automatic cancellation in bankruptcy but borrowers may not know about it
The report by the Student Borrower Protection Center is the first estimate of how much private stud…
Cezary Podkul
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The GOP just tried the fast-track route to block Biden's student-debt relief. Here's why it probably won't work.
Three GOP lawmakers recently introduced a new plan to use an oversight law to overturn Biden's stud…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Republicans are gearing up to investigate Biden's student-debt relief when they take control of the House
Reps. Jason Smith and Virginia Foxx asked that all records related to the cost of Biden's student-d…
Ayelet Sheffey
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2,600 student-loan borrowers are getting $11 million in payments after a federal consumer watchdog accused a debt relief company of illegally charging fees — and encouraging customers to 'stop paying their student loans altogether'
The CFPB filed a complaint accusing GST Factoring, which runs a student-debt relief business, of "c…
Ayelet Sheffey
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There are more ways to cancel your student debt than you might think. Here are your options
Confusing rules for student debt cancelation and forgiveness means that many borrowers don't take a…
Cezary Podkul
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The GOP's bill to permanently block Biden's student-debt relief could cause public servants' loan balances to unexpectedly balloon if it passes, advocacy groups say
A new report estimated that if passed, the bill to overturn Biden's student-debt relief could reins…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden's Education Dept. just wiped out $1.1 billion in student debt for 115,000 defrauded borrowers
Borrowers who went to now-defunct ITT Technical Institutes are receiving student debt relief over t…