Education Dept. rejects vast majority of applicants for temporary student loan forgiveness program

[mfcorey1]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/education-dept-rejects-vast-majority-of-applicants-for-temporary-student-loan-forgiveness-program/ar-BBVyfOZ?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

Tens of thousands of public servants have applied to have their federal student loans forgiven through a temporary relief program run by the U.S. Education Department. Fewer than 300 have had success.

Now, one of the lawmakers who championed the initiative wants to know what happened.

“We authorized $700 million dollars to help ensure public servants — including firefighters, teachers, and nurses — receive the loan forgiveness they have earned, and it’s maddening that the Trump Administration is letting it go to waste,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said in an email.

Kaine and other Senate Democrats have said the Education Department created eligibility criteria that are far more rigid than anything Congress envisioned. The measure in the fiscal 2018 budget that set up the one-time expansion, based on legislation introduced by Kaine and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), directed the agency to develop a simple way for borrowers to apply for forgiveness. Instead, lawmakers say the Education Department has restricted access with a litany of rules.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Got to wall off the country first.

[llmart]

3. To be fair here...

there are a lot of people who didn't/don't understand the requirements to be eligible for the loan forgiveness program. Like income taxes, the forms and instructions and guidelines are not written very clearly. Also, the guidelines for who is eligible are rather stringent and many people who think they are eligible are not. In addition to that, the program wasn't promoted that much so many people who may have been eligible didn't even know about it.

[Farmer-Rick]

5. Yes, all those things you mention ARE what's wrong with the program.

Why does eligibility have to be so stringent? Why are the forms and instructions so hard to understand? They don't have to be.

Why wasn't the program more widely advertised?

All those difficulties are done on purpose to prevent people from using the program. It's a scam RepubliCONS use to stop programs that have been legislated despite their inability to stop the program through legislation

I think the executive branch has got out of control. They are picking and choosing which legislation they will carry out. I know the executive branch has done this throughout history but it has gotten out of control and Congress needs to put penalties in if the executive branch fails in its execution of the law. The President is not a king. He is merely the guy who has to carryout the laws and programs Congress legislates.

[Farmer-Rick]

4. I bet if you seek forgiveness and write that you love some Trump BS.

I bet you would get forgiveness then.

RepubliCONS don't legislate or pass laws to end programs that help Americans, they just makes so many buracratic rules that you can't use the progrm.The program to help American homeowners to pay off their mortgages after the crash was like that. I wonder where all the millions set aside and never used to help middle class and poor homeowners went?