Student loan borrower defense discharges paused
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Federal · DOE pause on borrower defense to repayment (2025) · Mar 2025
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The Department of Education halted processing of borrower defense to repayment claims, which allow students defrauded by their colleges to have loans discharged, affecting hundreds of thousands of pending applications from students of for-profit schools.
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