The Supreme Court on Wednesday kept on hold the latest multibillion-dollar student debt relief plan from the Biden administration, while multiple lawsuits make their way through lower courts.
The justices rejected an administration request to put most of it back into effect. It was blocked by 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In an unsigned order, the court said it expects the appeals court to issue a fuller decision on the plan “with appropriate dispatch.”
The Education Department is seeking to provide a faster path to loan cancellation, and reduce monthly income-based repayments from 10% to 5% of a borrower’s discretionary income. The plan also wouldn’t require borrowers to make payments if they earn less than 225% of the federal poverty line — $32,800 a year for a single person.
Last year, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority rejected an earlier plan that would have wiped away more than $400 billion in student loan debt.
Cost estimates of the new SAVE plan vary. The Republican-led states challenging the plan peg the cost at $475 billion over 10 years. The administration cites a Congressional Budget Office estimate of $276 billion.
(AP)
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Thank G-D. I pay my loans:- So let everyone else also pay up their loans.
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The only issue is whether this can be done by an Executive Order (decree) rather than statute (Act of Congress). If Harris gets a majority in both houses, she can ask Congress to do it the “correct” way, by a statute.
Note that there is no constitutional requirement that statutes be logical, fair or wise, unlike executive orders which need to be authorized by statutes and not be arbitrary or capricious.
I never attended college, much less took student tuition loans, yet Joe 10% would have me pay off someone else’s loans. I believe that’s called Communism.