On August 21, 2020, Secretary DeVos has “directed Federal Student Aid (FSA) to extend the student loan relief to borrowers initiated by the President and Secretary in March 2020 through December 31, 2020.” This means that borrowers will continue to more »
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PSLF Non-Payments Count for Trump’s Executive Order
Tagged with: coronavirus, COVID-19, department of education, executive order, PSLF, public service loan forgiveness, trump
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Trump Executive Order
UPDATE: see our latest post: http://www.holdfasttodreams.org/pslf-non-payments-count-for-trumps-executive-order/ President Donald Trump has issued an executive order today (August 8, 2020; see https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-continued-student-loan-payment-relief-covid-19-pandemic/) which has extended the previous student loan relief issued on March 20, 2020. The executive order will: “[P]rovide such deferments more »
Tagged with: coronavirus, COVID-19, executive order, PSLF, public service loan forgiveness, trump
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Posted in blog, COVID-19
President Trump’s Budget Proposal & PSLF
Even though we receive a leaked preview of President Trump’s Budget Proposal and the proposed changes to PSLF, we were missing this key provision see in the actual text of the proposal, which was released today May 23, 2017: “All more »
Tagged with: 2018 proposed budget PSLF, budget proposal 2018, president trump budget proposal, PSLF, trump
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President Trump and Future of PSLF
Since President Trump has been in office, we have seen a rise in concerns of the future PSLF. We do not believe PSLF will be retroactively eliminated, for a number of reasons, some of which we blogged about earlier. We more »
Presidential Candidates Trump and Clinton on Student Loans
We’re seeing new developments on the student loan front with the presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. On Wednesday, October 12, 2016, Donald Trump made his most detailed comments on student loans yet during a speech in Ohio. “Under more »
Tagged with: 2016, clinton, donald trump, election, hillary clinton, IBR, income based repayment, loan forgiveness, president, trump
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Student Loans: Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton
UPDATE: Take a look at our new post on the positions of the presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Let’s take a giant, semi-blind leap forward and take a guess at what would happen to student loans if either more »
Tagged with: 2016 presidential election, clinton, donald trump, hillary clinton, IBR, PAYE, PSLF, REPAYE, student loan forgiveness, student loans, trump
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- Department of Education Fixes to Student Loans
- Student Loan Repayments Pause Extended Until August 31, 2022
- New PSLF Data from Dept of Education
- Student Loan Repayment Paused Until May 1, 2022
- Dept of Education’s PSLF Promise and PSLF Waiver Batches
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