With this web page, you will find proposals to enhance or change the method in which pupils borrow and repay their loans.

For education loan and repayment proposals through the past sessions of Congress, look at the Tracker that is legislative Archive Loans & Repayment.

*NEW* S. 3055 – Student Loan Repayment Freedom Act

Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski R-AKCosponsors: 2 (1D; 1R)Introduced: 12/16/2019NASFAA Overview & research: This bill would permit a student-based loan debtor to go out of their income-based payment plan and repay under just about any loan payment policy for that they meet the criteria.

*NEW* H.R. 5287 — Fair Education Loan Debt Collection Techniques Act

Sponsor: Rep. Lawson D-FLCosponsors: 0Introduced: 12/03/2019NASFAA Summary & research: This bill would prohibit gathering from the debtor during any time frame that an identical debtor wouldn’t be needed to produce re payment under an income-driven plan. Loan companies would additionally be forbidden from gathering from the debtor a sum that is significantly more than a borrower that is similar have compensated in one single thirty days under an IDR plan. Loan companies would additionally be forced to approve that the debtor they truly are trying to make a group from are perhaps perhaps not entitled to any administrative discharges first.

H.R. 4869 – Education Loan Default Decrease Program Act

Sponsor: Rep. Horn D-OKCosponsors: 0Introduced: 10/28/2019NASFAA Summary & research: This bill would rather than just eliminating the record of the debtor’s default from their credit score, eliminate any negative product of information concerning the loan standard through the debtor’s credit rating. (Pokračování textu…)