July 18, 2024 3:24pm EDT
Federal appeals court blocks all of Biden's student loan debt handout plan
The ruling comes after a lower court judge blocked portions of Biden's student loan handout last month
By Eric Revell FOXBusiness
A federal appeals court on Thursday issued a ruling that blocks the Biden administration from continuing to implement a new version of its student loan debt handout plan that is designed to reduce monthly payments for borrowers.
The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by seven Republican states to block portions of the Education Department's plan that a lower court judge hadn't previously blocked.
Last month, a U.S. District Court in St. Louis blocked the agency from moving forward with granting additional student loan forgiveness under the Biden administration's Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan – though it didn't block all elements of the plan.
The SAVE plan offers more generous terms for borrowers enrolled in income-driven repayment plans by reducing monthly payments for eligible borrowers who meet income criteria and forgiving the debt borrowers whose original principal balances were $12,000 or less after a 10 year period.
State attorneys general led by Missouri's Andrew Bailey asked the 8th Circuit to block the rest of the SAVE plan last week after portions of it were put on hold by the district court.
The court granted that request with a one-page ruling that imposed an administrative stay on the remainder of the SAVE plan with Thursday's ruling.
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