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[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Did you read the article?

An additional 53,000 borrowers will receive debt cancellation under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which wipes away remaining student loan debt after qualifying public sector workers make 10 years’ worth of monthly payments.

Nearly 51,000 borrowers, who have been in repayment for at least 20 years, are getting relief thanks to a recount of their past payments. The administration has found that these borrowers already qualified for student loan forgiveness but were missing out because of past administrative errors.

And nearly 22,000 borrowers who have a total or permanent disability have now been approved for an automatic debt discharge through a data match with the Social Security Administration.

[-] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

51,000 out of 125,000.

Did you?

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now read the beginning of the second and third paragraph

I dont mean this as a diss, but you shouldn't be so smug when I have to hold your hand like this.

[-] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Who's being smug? All I've done is throw your own words back at you. You're just wrong. The people in the second paragraph are your "administrative errors." The others are people being newly granted relief.

A far cry from the sweeping relief promised during the campaign, but also far from just correcting errors.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Neither of those programs are new? I dont know what makes you think Biden is doing something besides the framing .

[-] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I never said the programs were new. I explicitly said they already existed. But more than half of the CANCELLATIONS are new.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Are we counting new routine cancelations as Biden wins?

[-] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Idk what your deal is. You said they only fixed admin errors. All I did was point out that specific statement was wrong. You're putting a whole bunch of stuff I never said in my mouth. I have no interest in defending the administration.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Sorry, "all of the non routine debt forgiveness is correcting administrative errors".

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