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Anita Manion – Higher Education Policy, 2024
This study seeks to assess whether self-interest influences support for two policies to cancel student debt--one forgiving all student debt and one taking a means-tested approach to debt forgiveness. Each of these policy proposals offers a material benefit to certain groups of individuals while imposing cost or having no benefit to others, which…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Loan Repayment, Taxes, Predictor Variables
Thanh Hung Nguyen; Bình Nghiêm-Phú; Quang Trong Vu – Cogent Education, 2024
University students are potential customers of peer-to-peer (P2P) lending and pawnbroking services. However, the existing literature has primarily underestimated such borrowers' opinions of these services, especially from a comparative standpoint. In addition, previous studies have also neglected the implications for personal financial and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries, Loan Repayment
US Congress, 2020
The Stop Student Debt Relief Scams Act of 2019 was put in place to explicitly make unauthorized access to Department of Education information technology systems and the misuse of identification devices issued by the Department of Education a criminal act. The Act includes the following sections: (1) Short Title; (2) Criminal Penalties; (3) Loan…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Debt (Financial), Loan Repayment
Streeter, Michele; Sparks, Daniel – Institute for College Access & Success, 2022
Despite the availability of income-driven repayment (IDR) plans--and significant improvements to program design and generosity over time--too many federal student loan borrowers?continue to struggle with repayment. Many struggling borrowers never enroll in an IDR plan; even for some who do,?income-based monthly payments can?still be too high.…
Descriptors: Income, Student Financial Aid, Loan Repayment, Student Loan Programs
Cornett, Allyson; Knaf, Cassandra; Fletcher, Carla – Trellis Company, 2022
This brief examines data from 19,934 students with self-reported educational debt in Trellis' Fall 2021 Student Financial Wellness Survey (SFWS), with special emphasis on their financial security and attitudes toward their loans, debt, and debt forgiveness. Nearly two-thirds of borrowers had accumulated more debt than expected, and 36 percent did…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Debt (Financial), Financial Problems, Student Attitudes
Phillip L. Swagel – Congressional Budget Office, 2022
In this letter, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) responds to questions about the effects of President Biden's August 24, 2022, announcement on executive actions affecting student loans. The cost of outstanding student loans will increase by $20 billion because an action suspended payments, interest accrual, and involuntary collections from…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment, Student Financial Aid, Debt (Financial)
Amanda Davis Simpfenderfer; Jingjing Liu – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
Research examining students' socioeconomic outcomes after attaining a bachelor's degree tends to use single measures such as income or occupation (Thomas & Zhang, 2005; Torche, 2015). Yet, socioeconomic status is more complex than single measures. To capture that complexity, this study draws data from the National Center for Education…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, College Graduates, Socioeconomic Status, Bachelors Degrees
Institute for College Access & Success, 2024
This is the technical documentation for the report, "How the College Cost Reduction Act Could Threaten the Teacher Pipeline." The College Cost Reduction Act would overhaul the Higher Education Act, making changes to student borrowing and repayment, borrower protections, college oversight, postsecondary data, and more. The bill includes a…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Paying for College
Jason Cohn – Urban Institute, 2024
Recent higher education accountability policies and proposals have often linked programs' or institutions' federal aid access to students' postcompletion earnings. But proposals differ regarding when to measure earnings. Policymakers may want to know how fast earnings typically grow and when in an individual's career earnings growth rates change.…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Income, Wages
Thomas S. Zimmerman; Faye R. Jones; Avery M. D. Davis; Carley Dear – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2024
This study employs data from the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Baccalaureate and Beyond Surveys to compare financial well-being among college graduates with varying social characteristics and levels of student debt. We use logistic regression to answer three questions: 1) To what extent does the amount of debt at graduation…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Student Loan Programs, Stress Variables, College Graduates
Gaurav R. Sinha; Sean P. Mullen; Christopher R. Larrison; Sicong Sun – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2024
We examined patterns and sociodemographic correlates of financial characteristics and behaviors among emerging and young (18-34-year-old) student loan borrowers. Employing latent class regression modeling on a subset of the 2018 National Financial Capability Study (N=1,490), we explored a heterogeneous constellation of patterns in these borrowers'…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Young Adults, Educational Finance, Decision Making
Federal Student Loan Forgiveness and Loan Repayment Programs. CRS Report R43571, Version 17. Updated
Alexandra Hegji; Elayne J. Heisler; Sylvia L. Bryan – Congressional Research Service, 2024
Service-contingent student loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs enable borrowers to have all or part of their student loan debt forgiven or repaid in exchange for work or service in specific fields or professions. In both loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs, borrowers typically qualify for benefits by working or serving in certain…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Loan Repayment
Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2025
The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) and the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) determined that an effective strategy for addressing teacher shortages and filling hard-to-fill positions in remote geographic locations is to offer repayment of educational loans for those who fill these positions. The Loan Forgiveness Program…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Student Loan Programs, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Recruitment
Institute for College Access & Success, 2025
The Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) is New York's primary aid program, accounting for 80 percent of state financial aid awards to students attending public, private non-profit, and for-profit higher education institutions in the state. TAP is available to students attending two-year or four-year degree granting programs as well as students…
Descriptors: State Aid, Student Financial Aid, Financial Support, Student Loan Programs
Daniel H. Cooper; Maddie Haddix – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2025
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration paused federal student loan payments and interest accruals as a temporary relief measure for borrowers. The pause covered roughly 90 percent of all outstanding student loans, affecting about 38 million individuals, who collectively held a balance of $1.5 trillion. For each of the 17 million…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Loan Repayment, Public Policy, Federal Aid