Letter follows federal judge dismissing an ongoing legal challenge to borrowers under SAVE Plan repayment program
Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Vermont’s U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led their Senate colleagues to press the Trump Administration’s Education Department (ED) for urgent answers about its plans for federal student loan repayment options following a federal judge’s dismissal of an ongoing legal challenge to the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan and its affordable payments.
“This decision formally ends the SAVE injunction that has forced over 7 million SAVE borrowers into…