{"id":161053,"date":"2022-06-30T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/public-service-loan-forgiveness-waiver-should-be-extended-head-of-federal-student-aid-office-says"},"modified":"2022-06-30T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:57:00","slug":"public-service-loan-forgiveness-waiver-should-be-extended-head-of-federal-student-aid-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/public-service-loan-forgiveness-waiver-should-be-extended-head-of-federal-student-aid-office-says","title":{"rendered":"Public service loan forgiveness waiver should be extended, head of federal student aid office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Cordray, head of Federal Student Aid, wants to extend the temporary PSLF waiver. Kirk Irwin \/ GettySign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don&#8217;t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.Public servants should be given more time to apply for a waiver to get their student loans forgiven, Richard Cordray, the head of Federal Student Aid, said during the 2022 National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) National Conference earlier this week.Last year, the Department of Education announced multiple changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, including what types of payments would count toward forgiveness so that qualifying applicants have an easier time actually having their debt forgiven. PSLF was created so public servants&#8212;including teachers, lawyers, government officials, and nonprofit workers&#8212;could discharge their federal student loans after 10 years of on-time payments. But the program has not worked as intended: Few people who qualify actually apply for forgiveness, and those who do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don&#8217;t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations. Public servants should be given more time to apply for a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[96,339,42],"class_list":["post-161053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-education","tag-federal-aid","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}