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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Student loan repayments are back, but Joe Biden has a new plan for debt relief

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This summer, the US Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s ambitious plan to broadly cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debts for millions of borrowers.

In the wake of that decision, the president promised his administration would forge a “new path” for relief within the court’s legal bounds while leveraging existing programmes to ease debt burdens for tens of thousands of eligible Americans.

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