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Student loans: this could be a big week for millions of young people

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Within the “next a week or so.”

That’s when US Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said that Americans can expect decision from the Biden administration on student loans.

Millions of borrowers are looking forward to see if President Joe Biden will extend pause on federal student loan payments, etc. set expires August 31st, or perhaps forgive anyone of their debts. We remind you that the balances of borrowers were actually frozen from the very beginning. of pandemic Covid-19, with no payments required on most federal student loans from March 2020.

“We talked about it every day and I can tell you that the American people will hear within next a week or so from the president and ministry of Education on what are we going to do about it,” Cardona told NBC’s Chuck Todd. on “Meeting with the press”.

He didn’t elaborate, saying he wouldn’t move forward. of in announcement. “I don’t have any news announce today,” Cardona said.

That’s what you are need to know.

The White House has previously said Biden will have something to announce ahead of time. of deadline 31 August. And Biden has already extended in pause four timesMost recently in April, arguing that it is necessary allow federal student loan borrowers to get back on their legs. The question is whether there will be a fifth time.

But that’s not all. Democratic legislators and lawyers also called on Biden cancels completely up up to $50,000 in student loan debt per borrower, although the president said he would not consider that number.

Instead, along with with Potentially extending the pause, the White House has suggested that Biden is considering canceling $10,000 on every borrower except for those who earn more over $125,000 a year that he campaigned on in 2020.

Borrowers hold $1.6 trillion in prominent federal student loan debt, more than Americans should in or a loan card or auto loan debt.

  • About 54% of borrowers with outstanding student loan debt owes less than $20,000 because of March 2021, according to the College Board.
  • About 45% of outstanding debt owned 10% of borrowers owe $80,000 or more.

while wide student loan debt cancellation can deliver financial relief millions of Americans, consequences of such a significant policy move are complicated, writes Cathy Lobosco of CNN.

As well as on its own, the action would do nothing to bring down in cost of college for future borrowers or help those who have already paid for their degrees.

Recent decision from the highest court restricting the activities of the Environmental Protection Agency ability to fight climate crisis could complicate Biden’s powers to repeal federal student loan debt.

This is because the court decision is together with those in other recent cases on a moratorium on evictions and mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations signal that justices may tend to limit the power of federal agencies to make significant policy changes if this power clearly not included out Congress.

According to Lobosco, the president is largely focused on student debt relief.

For example, earlier this month, the Department of Education says it will cancel $3.9 billion in student loan debt for 208,000 students who attended the now defunct for-commercial ITT Technical Institute. It brings total amount of the loan repayment approved under Biden was nearly $32 billion.

Biden has also temporarily expanded public service loan forgiveness program that forgives debt of government and non-profit workers after 10 years of payments and made changes payable depending on income plansbringing millions of borrowers closer to forgiveness.

As expected, the attitude towards student debt the relief is sharply divided along partisan and generational lines.

Majority of democrats in May CNN Poll (56%) — and an even wider majority of self-proclaimed liberals (69%), said government does too little on student debt loan only a third of Republicans and self-proclaimed conservatives have said the same thing.

Seventy percent of adults under 35 said that government doing too little, this figure has fallen to 50% among those in age group 35-49 years and 35% among those aged 50 and over.

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