The Education Department on Friday extended federal student loan relief through Jan. 31, giving Americans another four months of no payments or interest.
The pause on payments was first enacted by the Trump administration in March 2020 to help those economically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The department said the additional time will give borrowers time to plan for resuming payments, reducing delinquencies and defaults after the restart.
“The payment pause has been a lifeline that allowed millions of Americans to focus on their families, health, and finances like bad credit direct lenders no brokers during the national emergency,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said.
“As our nation’s economy continues to recover from a deep hole, this final extension will give students and borrowers the time they need to plan for restart and ensure a smooth pathway back to repayment. It is the department’s priority to support students and borrowers during this transition and ensure they have the resources they need to access affordable, high quality higher education.”
The Biden administration has faced calls from some lawmakers to cancel student debt entirely or partially. White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced in February President Joe Biden asked the Justice Department to review whether he had the legal authority to do so.
In a statement Friday, Biden said the pause on repayment means Americans won’t have to choose between paying off debt or paying for necessities during the pandemic.
“As today’s jobs numbers show, we have the tools that will allow us to beat COVID-19 and keep our economy recovering at a record rate. But we know there is more work to do and the road will still be long for many people — especially for the one in six adults and one in three young people who have federal student loans,” he said.
Student loan debt in the United States reached more than $1.7 trillion at the end of 2020, according to the Education Department.
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Everything is free according to the liberals in Government. Everything is free, with the taxpayers paying for the abomination calling for the destruction of society from debt.
What next. Everyone gets a 1 year pause on paying your mortgage??
This government needs to get totally out of the business of education that has been turned into camps of social indoctrination and financial control. Why are WE THE PEOPLE guaranteeing student loans, that have so many strings attached and moveable parts that our banks must be feeling like puppets on a string. I guess they just joined the club like all the rest of us when the dirty Democrats get their dirty hands all over our once clean government that one promoted equality, not equity. That giant sucking sound is the prelude to forgiven student loans of Taxpayer money used to educate our students to be radical socialists or borderline communists, unfit and unable to hold down a real wealth producing job. Many of the miseducated are not even legal Americans.
IMO they shouldn’t have gotten into it, in the FIRST DAMN PLACE. IT IS NOT THE ROLE Of the govt, in ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM
If you haven’t figured it out yet, this country is in deep sh*t. Put your eyes above not on these reprobates running the country. It’s toast….Fun while it lasted, huh? It’s sad that as the most blessed nation ever we stood by and let it all go down the toilet.