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Jaipur, Dec 4 () A six-member team from Maharashtra will be visiting Jaipur to study the state government's farm loan waiver scheme, a senior official said.
 The Maharashtra government has also decided to waive loans of farmers on the lines of Rajasthan, state cooperatives registrar Neeraj K. Pawan said.
 Pawan further noted that Cooperatives Principal Secretary of Maharashtra, Abha Shukla, Principal Secretary, Information Technology SVR Srinivas, Agriculture Secretary, Eknath Dawale will be part of the six-member study team, who will be in Jaipur on December 5.
 The team would study the loan waiver scheme implemented in the state for effective and transparent implementation.
 The Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance government led by Uddhav Thackeray in its common minimum programme has promised to waive loans of farmers. 
 Managing Director of the Apex Bank Inder Singh said Rajasthan has waived crop loans of about Rs 8,000 crore as on November 30, 2018 which benefited 20.30 lakh farmers. The present state government has provided loan waiver of Rs 15,000 crore through the scheme in the year 2018 and 2019.
 He said Rajasthan has decided to waive loans of Rs 2 lakh of financially troubled marginal and small farmers taken from Central Cooperative Banks and Bhumi Vikas Bank as of November 30, 2018.
 The decision will free about 4 lakh bighas of land of nearly 70,000 farmers of the state. AG
 
 
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Maharashtra team to study Rajasthan farm loan waiver scheme

Jaipur, Feb 3 () More than 8 lakh new farmers have been linked with online crop loan system to disburse cooperative crop loans in last one year in Rajasthan. 
 Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had given instructions to end discrimination in cooperative crop loan disbursement and to adopt uniform and transparent system and link new farmers so that they can get crop loans on zero per cent interest and get free from the clutches of moneylenders.
 Implementing the policy, the Apex Cooperative Bank had launched online crop loan disbursement and registration scheme-2019 under which crop loans were disbursed to eligible farmers based on their biometric verification, Department of Cooperatives said in a statement. 
 So far, more than 21 lakh farmers have been linked to cooperative crop loan in the state, including 8 lakh new farmers, and they have got crop loan of more than 8,244 crore, it said. 
 According to the statement, 13 lakh old farmers were also linked with the new crop loan system. 
 More than 25 lakh farmers have applied for crop loan till date in the state. Of these, 21.20 lakh farmers were disbursed loans of Rs 4,583 crore in Kharif season and Rs 3,661 crore in Rabi season. 
 Approximately 7 lakh new farmers have also been disbursed crop loans, while the remaining farmers will be disbursed loans by March 31, 2020.
 Under the Rajasthan Farmer Loan Waiver Scheme, loans of eligible farmers were waived through biometric verification. 
 Rajasthan government has waived farm loans of Rs 15,000 crore in 2018 and 2019. Approximately Rs 8,000 crore of loans of around 20 lakh farmers were waived under the scheme in 2019, it said. AG
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Over 8 lakh new farmers linked with online crop loan system in Rajasthan

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Education Dept. announced it is waiving <keyword id="11897642" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="interest" source="Orion">interest</keyword> on <keyword id="11896050" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="student-loans" source="Orion">student loans</keyword> for 47,000 <keyword id="11910609" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="service-members" source="Orion">service members</keyword>.</li><li>Receiving the benefit will also be automated so borrowers don't have to submit individual requests.</li><li>This benefit was created under the Higher Education Act, but paperwork held back many from accessing it.</li></ul>A day after the <keyword id="11897874" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="education-department" source="Orion">Education Department</keyword> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-debt-relief-for-total-permanent-disabilities-borrowers-cardona-biden-2021-8">wiped out $5.8 billion</a> in <keyword id="11896049" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="student-debt" source="Orion">student debt</keyword> for borrowers with disabilities, it announced service members will also be getting relief: waived interest that has been a benefit under the Higher Education Act but has barely been accessed.On Friday, the Education Department announced the Federal Student Aid (FSA) office will be retroactively waiving interest on student loans for 47,000 former and active-duty service members. The relief will happen automatically, removing the requirement for service members to make individual requests to access the benefit. According to the <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-grants-interest-rate-benefit-more-47000-service-members">press release</a>, automating the process means eight times more current and active-duty service members will receive the benefit than in 2019."Brave men and women in uniform serving our country can now focus on doing their jobs and coming home safely, not filling out more paperwork to access their hard-earned benefits," FSA Chief Operating Officer Richard Cordray said in a statement. "Federal Student Aid is grateful for our strong partnership with the Department of Defense, and we will seek to reduce red tape for service members wherever possible."Service members deployed to areas that qualify them for "imminent danger or hostile fire pay," according to the Higher Education Act, should not accrue interest on student loans that were first disbursed on or after October 1, 2008. But since the process was not previously automated, only a small proportion of eligible service members were able to access the benefit, with only about 4,800 of them getting relief in 2019.Along with waived interest, service members also qualify for full student-debt relief under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, which forgives student debt for public servants after 120 monthly qualifying payments. But not only is this program flawed, <a href="https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/loan-forgiveness/pslf-data">rejecting 98%</a> of applicants, if a service member is deployed and puts payments on pause, that time doesn't count toward loan forgiveness, extending the period they have to keep paying.And according to a Government Accountability Office <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-65">report</a>, as of January 2020, 287 Dept. of Defense personnel received loan forgiveness, while 5,180, or 94% of DOD borrowers, were denied.In April, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-forgiveness-military-service-members-marco-rubio-maggie-hassan-2021-4">introduced legislation</a> that allows service members who deferred their student loan payments while deployed to count that period of time toward their PSLF progress, expediting the process for student-debt relief.

47,000 service members will finally get the student loan debt relief they've been promised for years

<keyword id="6354731" type="DOMAIN" weightage="20" keywordseo="state-bank-of-india">State Bank of India</keyword> on Friday announced an <keyword id="413700" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="interest-concession">interest concession</keyword> of up to 30 basis points on home loans and a 100 per cent waiver on <keyword id="515211" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="processing-fees">processing fees</keyword>. The new home loan interest rates are linked to CIBIL score and start from 6.80 per cent for loans up to Rs 30 lakh and 6.95 per cent for loans above Rs 30 lakh, a bank release said. Women borrowers will get a <keyword id="44979" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="concession">concession</keyword> of 5 bps, it said. "With an aim to offer attractive concessions to the home buyers, country's largest lender SBI announces further interest concession of up to 30 bps on home loans and 100 per cent waiver on processing fees," the release said. The bank said interest concession of up to 30 bps is also available in eight metro cities for loans up to Rs 5 crore. Customers can also apply from the ease of their home via <keyword id="6961637" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="yono-app">YONO App</keyword> and get additional interest concession of 5 bps, the release said. "We are pleased to improve our concessions to prospective home loan customers up to March 2021," the bank's managing director (retail and digital banking), C S Setty, said. The lender's eligible existing home loan borrowers can also avail a paperless pre-approved top-up home loan through the YONO App, he added. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/tcs-ongc-tata-power-punjab-national-bank-nhpc-and-other-top-stocks-to-watch/articleshow/80164057.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">TCS’ market share, ONGC’s borrowing, Tata Power gets new territories⁠— these and other top stocks to watch</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/whatsapp-is-forcing-users-to-share-personal-data-with-facebook-and-elon-musk-is-urging-people-to-switch-to-signal-a-smaller-encrypted-messaging-app/articleshow/80156317.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">WhatsApp is forcing users to share personal data with Facebook, and Elon Musk is urging people to switch to Signal, a smaller encrypted messaging app</a>

SBI offers discounts on home loans, waives of processing fees

Kochi, Apr 1 () As novel coronavirus continues toaffect various industries colossally, a city-based fintechstartup set a benchmark by waiving off interest and processingcharges worth Rs 25 lakh on agro-loans it distributed to 136farmers in Tamil Nadu with a total ticket size of around Rs1.7 crores. Announcing the decision, Founder &amp; CEO of Spoon, KurianGeorge said the firm currently handles two major agro-impact investment projects in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra andthe present waivers will be applicable to all loans disbursedbetween November 2019 and March 2020 in these projects inaddition to the government-declared moratorium on EMIs. "This will impact nearly 1000 people in the Nilgirisalone, where they are engaged in carrot, beetroot andpotatoes farming while in Maharasthra, our loans are given tocotton farmers" he said.Rajan, one of the Spoon customers in the Nilgiris sinceNovember 2019, said the major factor that makes digital loansreally impactful is their timely and quick availability."The long walks and queues in banks were tiring. Pestsdestroy our crops by the time we receive money to applypesticides.The intermediaries took away whatever was left. Also, theeducational expenses of our kids make survival moredifficult," he rued. The CEO of Spoon said the company was currentlyspecializing in impact agro-lending, providing hassle-freeloans for cultivation to farmers across India. The company operates on the principles of impactfinancing and integrates this with smart technology to benefitthe community at a larger scale, he said in a release. TGBROH ROH

Coronavirus: Kerala start-up waives interest on agro loans

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Education Sec. <keyword id="11897873" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="miguel-cardona" source="Orion">Miguel Cardona</keyword> announced 323,000 borrowers with <keyword id="11893505" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="disabilities" source="Orion">disabilities</keyword> will get $5.8 billion in student-debt relief.</li><li>He also is "indefinitely" waiving the requirement for those borrowers to submit proof of income.</li><li>Borrowers will no longer have to undergo a burdensome process to get relief, advocates said.</li></ul>President Joe <keyword id="60973" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="biden" source="Orion">Biden</keyword>'s <keyword id="11897874" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="education-department" source="Orion">Education Department</keyword> just took a major step in ensuring borrowers with disabilities burdened by <keyword id="11896049" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="student-debt" source="Orion">student debt</keyword> can get relief.On Thursday, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona announced in a <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/over-323000-federal-student-loan-borrowers-receive-58-billion-automatic-total-and-permanent-disability-discharges">press release</a> that 323,000 borrowers who have a total and permanent disability (TPD) will get $5.8 billion of their student debt automatically discharged. The department also announced it will be "indefinitely" waiving the <keyword id="11896048" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="policy" source="Orion">policy</keyword> for TPD borrowers to require proof of income, which in the past has resulted in a reinstatement of loans if borrowers don't respond."We've heard loud and clear from borrowers with disabilities and advocates about the need for this change and we are excited to follow through on it," Cardona said. "This change reduces red tape with the aim of making processes as simple as possible for borrowers who need support."<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/12/obama-to-forgive-the-student-debt-of-permanently-disabled-people/">Established</a> under President Barack Obama, anyone determined permanently disabled by a physician, the Social Security Administration, or the Department of Veteran Affairs are eligible for federal student-debt cancelation, with a requirement to submit documentation during a three-year monitoring period to verify that their incomes did not exceed the poverty line. In March, Cardona <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-education-department-cancels-student-debt-borrowers-disabilities-paperwork-cardona-2021-3">waived</a> that requirement for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-debt-cancellation-payment-pause-borrowers-disabilities-defrauded-2021-6#reversed-a-devos-methodology-for-determining-loan-forgiveness-4">230,000 borrowers</a> with disabilities for the duration of the pandemic, saying at the time it would "ensure no borrower who is totally and permanently disabled risks having to repay their loans simply because they could not submit paperwork."Cardona said in Thursday's announcement that while he is permanently getting rid of the paperwork requirement, he will also consider waiving the three-year monitoring period.Bethany Lilly, the director of income policy at The Arc, an organization advocating for people with disabilities, told Insider following the department's announcement that now, borrowers with disabilities do not have to undergo "an incredibly strenuous and bureaucratic process that doesn't really work.""I am so excited for these borrowers," Lilly said.Insider previously <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-debt-canceled-borrowers-disabilities-defrauded-biden-doe-2021-4">reported</a> on the difficult process borrowers with disabilities had to go through just to get the student-debt relief to which they were entitled, with experts saying the paperwork requirements and monitoring period were unnecessary and burdensome steps.According to the press release, the change will go into effect in September and borrowers will then be notified of their debt discharges, and the department expects all discharges to occur before the end of the year.Two weeks ago, six bipartisan senators <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-debt-forgiveness-disability-discharge-bipartisan-lawmakers-biden-2021-8">urged</a> Cardona to quickly discharge loans of borrowers with TPD and asked him to get rid of the administrative burdens that accompany the process. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-debt-cancellation-payment-pause-borrowers-disabilities-defrauded-2021-6#cancelled-student-debt-for-some-borrowers-with-disabilities-6">Student-debt relief under Biden</a> now stands at approximately $8.7 billion for about 455,000 borrowers.

Biden's Education Dept. just erased $5.8 billion in student-debt for 323,000 borrowers

New Delhi, Apr 25 () Current and retired employees of BSNL have opposed the government's decision to freeze dearness allowance (DA) for 18 months, starting January 1, 2020. All India BSNL-DOT Pensioners Association (AIBDPA), representing more than one lakh of pensioners retired from Department of Telecom and BSNL, on Saturday said that their members have already contributed to the Prime Minister and Chief Minister's relief funds according to their ability and deduction will put pensioners to extreme difficulty. The BSNL Employees' Union (BSNL EU) called the move a retrograde action and a "big attack on the livelihood of the central government employees and pensioners" while denouncing the action of the government.Both bodies alleged the government of favouring corporates by way of giving loan waivers, tax rebates, etc and questioned the decision of DA freeze which adversely impacts many low income employees."Government has waived bad loans worth Rs 5.5 lakh crore. An overwhelming portion of these bad loans were defaulted by the big corporates. By waiving the bad loans so massively, the government had only facilitated the big corporates to loot people's money. In view of the foregoing, BSNL EU wishes to state that the DA freeze imposed on the central government employees and pensioners is most unjustified," BSNL EU said.AIBDPA said that the government-run BSNL has stopped medical allowance and reimbursement of medical treatment expenses for the last two years on the plea of lack of funds and the pensioners are dependent upon their meagre pension. "Many of these pensioners draw minimum pension which is insufficient even for day to day expenses. It is at this crucial time that the decision to freeze DR (dearness relief) for 18 months has been issued. This amount will increase according to the increase in pension which will put the pensioners to extreme difficulty," the retired employees' body said. According to AIBDPA, the DR cut will be about Rs 17,000 (for the 18-month period) or more for a pensioner getting about Rs 10,000 monthly pension. PRS MKJ

BSNL employees oppose govt decision to freeze DA hike

<ul class="summary-list"><li>President Donald Trump announced he would waive interest on federal student loan payments amid the coronavirus crisis sweeping the country.</li><li>On Friday, Trump declared a national emergency, opening up greater government resources to combat the worsening crisis.</li><li>The action on student loans was one of several efforts to avert major economic repercussions for Americans.</li><li>Earlier this week, Democrats also pushed Trump for a broader six-month loan-forgiveness plan for people with student debt.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>President Donald Trump on Friday announced he would waive interest on all federal student loan payments amid the coronavirus crisis.It's one of several efforts the Trump administration is making to avert major economic repercussions on Americans as a result of the pandemic, which has so far <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-us-cases-health-risk-2020-1">killed 41 people</a> and sickened at least 1,800 others.On Friday, Trump declared a national emergency, opening up greater government resources to combat the worsening crisis.Coronavirus fears have hammered the economy, plunging workers and businesses across the country into doubt and prompting calls for actions such as loan forgiveness, tax relief, and bailouts.Trump said the waiver on loans will last under "further notice." Many schools around the country have closed their campuses and are making shifts to distance learning in an effort to help contain the pandemic.The treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said earlier Friday that the government would consider suspending student loan payments altogether, but Trump stopped short of the more drastic action."That's on our list of 50 different items we're bringing to the president for a decision. That'll be something we're looking at," Mnuchin <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/mnuchin-may-suspend-student-loan-repayments-amid-coronavirus-outbreak.html">told CNBC</a>.Earlier this week, Democrats also pushed Trump for a broader six-month loan-forgiveness plan for people with student debt.At a press conference on Friday, Trump paraded a series of top CEOs in front of the media gathered in the White House's Rose Garden. He announced that a number of US companies will aid the efforts to provide widespread coronavirus testing and other forms of relief.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-news-today-index-reaction-trump-coronavirus-speech-plan-2020-3-1028995408">Dow surges 1,985 points as Trump's coronavirus address eases concerns of economic damage</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/students-react-harvard-dorms-close-coronavirus-pandemic-2020">Harvard students say the coronavirus pandemic has upended the last place at the elite $46,000 a year university where all students felt equal: its dorms</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-building-coronavirus-test-website-trump-says-2020-3">Trump says Google is building a website to help direct coronavirus tests and has 1,700 engineers working on it</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-150-million-americans-may-get-infected-2020-3">Multiple experts say up to 70% of Americans could be infected with the coronavirus and 1 million could die if no treatment is found - so people over 60 should 'stay home unless it's critical'</a></li></ul>

Trump announces he'll waive interest on federal student loan payments amid the coronavirus crisis

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Education Secretary <keyword id="10486155" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="miguel-cardona">Miguel Cardona</keyword> canceled <keyword id="1737245" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Student-Debt">student debt</keyword> for over 41,000 borrowers with disabilities.</li><li>He also waived a requirement to provide income documentation when applying for relief.</li><li>People with total permanent disabilities who can no longer work may qualify for student loan forgiveness.</li></ul>Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Monday canceled student debt for over <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-education-department-cancels-student-debt-borrowers-disabilities-paperwork-cardona-2021-3">41,000 borrowers with disabilities</a> and removed paperwork requirements, easing the process for eligible borrowers to receive relief.In a rule established under President Barack Obama, anyone determined as totally and permanently disabled was eligible to receive student debt cancelation, with a requirement to submit documentation during a three-year monitoring period to verify that their incomes did not exceed the poverty line.Cardona waived the rule to submit that paperwork, which will help 230,000 borrowers receive debt relief. "Borrowers with total and permanent disabilities should focus on their well-being, not put their health on the line to submit earnings information during the COVID-19 emergency," Cardona said in a <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/education-department-announces-relief-student-loan-borrowers-total-and-permanent-disabilities-during-covid-19-emergency">statement</a>.People with total permanent disabilities who may qualify for student loan forgiveness are generally unable to work for the rest of their lives. This may include people who cannot work because they have physical or mental impairments like paralysis or blindness. Here is how borrowers with disabilities can qualify for student loan forgiveness, <a href="https://disabilitydischarge.com/TPD-101">according</a> to the <keyword id="52175" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="DoE">DOE</keyword>:<h1>Ruling from the <keyword id="4954675" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="department-of-veteran-affairs">Department of Veteran Affairs</keyword></h1>Veterans can qualify for student loan forgiveness if the VA indicates to the DOE that the veteran has a disability that is "100% disabling," causing the person to be unemployable. If this is the case, the DOE will notify eligible veterans that they qualify for a student loan discharge, and if veterans believe they qualify but were never contacted, they can submit an application with information from the VA proving their disability status.<h1>Social Security benefits</h1>Borrowers who receive Social Security Disability Insurance or Supplemental Security Income benefits may also be eligible for student loan forgiveness. The DOE will contact borrowers who have a scheduled disability review between five and seven years from the date of their most recent SSA disability determination, and borrowers will not have to submit any documentation on their own.If borrowers receive SSDI or SSI benefits but were not contacted by the DOE, they can apply and provide documentation of the benefits they receive.<h1>Diagnosis from a physician</h1>The final way to receive student loan forgiveness is via proof of a licensed physician. The physician must certify that the borrower is totally and permanently disabled and unable to engage in any type of gainful activity caused by a physical or mental impairment that:<ul><li>Can be expected to result in death;</li><li>Has lasted for a continuous period of at least 60 months;</li><li>And can be expected to last a continuous period of at least 60 months.</li></ul>

Biden just canceled student debt for 41,000 borrowers with disabilities. Here's who qualifies.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>56 Democrats urged Education Sec. Miguel Cardona to fix the <keyword id="11183500" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="public-service-loan-forgiveness-program">Public Service Loan Forgiveness program</keyword>.</li><li>The letter cited its high denial rate, with fewer than 2.5% of eligible applicants being approved.</li><li><keyword id="60973" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Biden">Biden</keyword> campaigned on fixing the program to give public service workers needed relief.</li></ul>President Joe Biden campaigned on reforming the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, which he - along with many lawmakers in past years - said is failing borrowers due to its low approval rate.His campaign <a href="https://joebiden.com/education/">website</a> said: "Biden will see to it that the existing Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program is fixed, simplified, and actually helps teachers."On Wednesday, 56 Democratic lawmakers urged Biden to follow through on his promise.Senate and House Democrats, led by Sens. Tim Kaine of Virginia, <keyword id="322250" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kirsten-Gillibrand">Kirsten Gillibrand</keyword> of New York, and Rep. John Sarbanes of Maryland, wrote a letter to Biden's Education Secretary Miguel Cardona stressing the need to improve the PSLF program to give public servants the loan forgiveness they deserve.The PSLF program allows government and nonprofit employees with federally backed student loans to apply for loan forgiveness after proof of 120 monthly payments under a qualifying repayment plan, but <a href="https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/loan-forgiveness/pslf-data">98% of all borrowers</a> from the general public have been rejected from the program."After the first round of forgiveness initially became available to PSLF borrowers more than three years ago, approval rates for the program have remained below 2.5%," the letter said. "The program has been beset by numerous 'donut holes' that disqualify certain types of loans, repayment plans and the payments themselves, leading to extraordinary confusion and distrust of the PSLF program and, by extension, the federal government."The lawmakers urged Cardona to waive barriers in PSLF, including to:<ul><li>Expand the definition of an "eligible loan" to include all federal student loans;</li><li>Make all repayment plans eligible for PSLF;</li><li>Waive the restriction that requires a borrower to be in public service at the time of loan forgiveness;</li><li>And establish data-sharing agreements with the Dept. of Defense and Office of Personnel management to automatically identify public service workers with outstanding <keyword id="1737245" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Student-Debt">student debt</keyword>.</li></ul>The letter also called for extensive communication from the Education Department to borrowers to ensure they are aware of any changes that might impact loan forgiveness.In past weeks, lawmakers from both parties have introduced legislation to reform the PSLF program. Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-forgiveness-military-service-members-marco-rubio-maggie-hassan-2021-4">introduced</a> the <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/e15f5edb-c84d-4ac5-978a-aa4a01a774b6/D34FB3120B691E1087076B1F918F845B.bom21531.pdf">Recognizing Military Service in Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Act,</a> which allows service members who deferred their student loan payments while deployed to count that period of time toward their PSLF progress.This followed a a Government Accountability Office <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-65">report</a> that found that 287 Dept. of Defense personnel had received loan forgiveness as of January 2020, while 5,180, or 94% of DOD borrowers, were denied. Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-statement-independent-watchdog-reveals-public-service-loan-forgiveness-program-is-failing-servicemembers-and-dod-civil-servants">statement</a> calling the findings, and PSLF, "nothing short of a disaster."Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was sued <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/california-public-service-loan-forgiveness-program-160813754.html">multiple times</a> over the program's high denial rate.Sarbanes said on <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSarbanes/status/1389973192253612040">Twitter</a>: "We must ensure that America's teachers, social workers, public defenders, service members and community health care workers - along with many other public servants - receive the <keyword id="10959788" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="student-loan-forgiveness">student loan forgiveness</keyword> they have earned."

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