One Year After Supreme Court Ripped Away Student Debt Relief, Borrowers Still Waiting for Promised Relief

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Persis Yu is the Student Borrower Protection Center’s deputy executive director and managing counsel. Persis is a nationally recognized expert on student loan law and has over a decade of hands-on experience representing student loan borrowers.

Exactly one year ago, President Joe Biden stood before the American people after the politicized U.S. Supreme Court ripped away critical student debt relief from 40 million borrowers. The President reaffirmed his commitment to cancel student debt and pledged to use different authority under the Higher Education Act. Since then, President Biden has worked arduously to deliver debt relief to nearly 5 million student loan borrowers by making critical fixes to loan relief programs.

Student debt is exacerbating racial and economic inequities and widening the racial wealth gap, worsening economic insecurity for people with disabilities, and increasing health disparities and the mental health crisis. And after this week’s rulings, these young borrowers may not even have the benefit of affordable payments and the guarantee of a light at the end of the tunnel.

 

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