US court rescues part of Biden student loan SAVE plan

A U.S. appeals court allowed President Joe Biden’s administration to move forward with implementing a key part of a new student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly payments for millions of Americans.

The Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sunday put on hold an injunction issued by a judge in Kansas last week at the urging of Republican-led states which argued the U.S. Department of Education’s debt relief plan was unlawful.

The three-judge 10th Circuit panel did not give a reason for why it was granting the stay sought by the Democratic president’s administration. The Education Department did not respond to a request for comment.

The Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan provides more generous terms than past income-based repayment plans, lowering monthly payments for eligible borrowers and allowing those whose original principal balances were $12,000 or less to have their debt forgiven after 10 years.

More context:Student loan borrowers were expecting more help. They’re stuck waiting again.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree in Wichita, Kansas, on June 24 had concluded that the Higher Education Act of 1965 did not clearly authorize the type of “unprecedented and dramatic expansion” of income-based repayment plans envisioned.

Crabtree, in ruling in favor of state attorneys general from South Carolina, Texas and Alaska challenging the plan, had limited the scope of his decision, enjoining only aspects of the SAVE plan not already in effect.

But in a brief, the administration told the 10th Circuit that Crabtree’s ruling was only “technically prospective” and that, in fact, the Education Department and loan servicers would have to reprogram complex software to calculate borrowers’ new monthly payments, prepare billing notices and process payments.

That work would take months, and in the interim many borrowers enrolled in the SAVE plan would need to be placed into forbearance until their loans could be serviced with a correct calculation of payments due, the U.S. Department of Justice argued on the administration’s behalf.

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