Student loan discharge granted to over 21,000 more Floridians over GOP objections

Student loan discharge granted to over 21,000 more Floridians over GOP objections

President Joe Biden is announcing another round of discharges of old, underperforming, and otherwise distressed loans from the U.S. Department of Education’s student debt portfolio.

A total of 21,280 more Floridians will get forgiveness, which adds up to a total of $9.1 billion in write-offs for 180,130 people in Florida who have been suffering for years under the burden of compound interest on decisions they made while they were younger.

“Today, my Administration is cancelling student debt for 277,000 more people, bringing the total number of Americans who have been approved for debt relief so far under my Administration to 4.3 million borrowers through various actions,” Biden said in a wri...

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