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The impacted borrowers are people enrolled in the SAVE Plan.

The Biden administration will begin automatically relieving student debt for another 153,000 people on Wednesday, bringing the total number of Americans approved for debt relief to nearly 3.9 million.

President Joe Biden will tout the new debt relief in a speech from Los Angeles, and thousands of people will receive an email from the president informing them that they now qualify for relief.

"Congratulations — all or a portion of your federal student loans will be forgiven because you qualify for early loan forgiveness under my Administration's SAVE Plan," the email from the president will read.

The people receiving debt relief beginning Wednesday are those who enrolled in the newest student loan payment plan, called the SAVE Plan, which the Department of Education calls the most affordable plan for the majority of borrowers.

Anyone enrolled in the SAVE Plan who took out less than $12,000 in initial loans and has been paying them down for the past 10 years or more will have them forgiven.

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[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The More sweeping forgiveness attempt was blocked.

He seems pretty committed to forgiving whatever he can get through. It wouldn't be unusual to give up after the initial attempt was blocked, but now he seems to be breaking it apart into more manageable chunks. I'm still slightly hopeful that more forgiveness is coming for those who need it.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

He seems pretty committed to forgiving whatever he can get through

The record really doesn't support that. He could have kept pursuing the sweeping relief under different rationales while also doing these small-scale things, and he could have done more to make sweeping relief more difficult to challenge in court by implementing it closer to when it was announced. The fact that there have been no efforts in that direction makes it seem a lot more likely they're just trying to get as many headlines out of this issue for themselves as they can and don't care who does and doesn't get help at the end of the day.

e; almost goes without saying, but I probably should add that this is still way better than anything we'd see out of any Republican administration

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This sounds really ambiguous. What "different rationales" are you referring to? I'm pretty sure his team of lawyers and advisors have pursued every alternative avenue possible. Warren's recent interview with PSA reflects this. If he wanted to provide blanket coverage before, why wouldn't he try now when it's such an obvious win to rally support from an essential coalition?