Student loan settlement erases debt for 170K borrowers
A 2026 update to the $23 billion borrower defense class action case, Sweet v. McMahon, allows an additional 170,000 student loan borrowers to have their debt forgiven. MarioGuti/Getty Images Roughly seven years after plaintiffs filed a massive class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), more than 170,000 additional borrowers will have their…

