"At the start of COVID-19, many students didn’t have quite the college experience they were looking for. Many students fell behind and had to pull out extra money to ensure they could afford to have the tools they needed at home. Students didn’t anticipate to have to be online for an entire year without much human contact. President Joe Biden’s administration wants to ensure the loans students took out during that time can be forgiven," The Rocket reports. 

...  “Current students and borrowers who have federal undergraduate, graduate and parent plus loans that were distributed on or before June 30, 2022 are eligible for relief,” Megan Walter, policy analyst for National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said. 

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Publication Date: 9/12/2022