With help from Benjamin Wermund, Caitlin Emma and Kimberly Hefling
COULD ELECTION STALL PROGRESS ON BORROWER DEFENSE? The presidential transition has created a cloud of uncertainty for tens of thousands of student borrowers seeking loan forgiveness some of whom have already waited more than a year to find out if they’ll get relief. The students, most of whom attended for-profit colleges, are asking that their debts be erased because they were misled or deceived by their schools. While the Education Department has finally ramped up a system to handle these debt-relief claims which fall under a federal provision known as “borrower defense to …
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