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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 | Back issues
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Student debt dischargement

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California approved a $6 billion settlement between the Department of Education and a class of student loan borrowers who say that the federal government had unlawfully delayed the processing, or wrongly denied, their applications for loan dischargement. The approved settlement will forgive their debt.

Read the ruling here.

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