A Look at Biden’s Targeted Student Loan Relief Measures
The Biden administration has been grappling for months over whether to accede to progressive demands to cancel large swaths federal student loan debt. And more immediately, the White House and Education Department are debating if pandemic relief for 40 million student loan borrowers should be extended beyond October.
As the administration weighs those major decisions, Education Department officials have said they’re focused on improving the existing debt cancellation programs targeted at certain populations of borrowers: those who have become severely disabled or were defrauded by their college, and public service workers.
A new trove of federal data sheds some light on how the Biden administration is approaching debt relief for these students.
