Student Loan Law: Public Service Loan Forgiveness

Forbes 7/30/24

NPR 7/11/19

NPR 5/3/19

Mother Jones Sept/ Oct 2018

CFPB 9/12/24

NerdWallet 2/28/19

National Legal Aid and Defender Ass'n.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

Regulation enacted 7/10/23

Due to changes in PSLF regulation, you can now buy back certain months in your payment history to make them qualifying payments for PSLF. Specifically, you can buy back months that don’t count as qualifying payments because you were in an ineligible deferment or forbearance status.

1% of Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness requests were approved by the Dept. of Education.

Seeks to change eligibility for public service loan forgiveness by saying employer can't "have a substantial illegal purpose". Comments were due 9/17/25

Student Borrower Protection Center 9/9/21. The chart above is from this article.

American Federation of Teachers sues Mohela, arguing the loan servicer has not performed its responsibilities adequately.