{"id":356485,"date":"2022-11-23T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=356485"},"modified":"2022-11-24T00:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:51:57","slug":"i-can-t-even-retire-if-i-wanted-to-people-with-student-loan-debt-get-real-about-biden-s-plan-being-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/i-can-t-even-retire-if-i-wanted-to-people-with-student-loan-debt-get-real-about-biden-s-plan-being-on-hold","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Can\u2019t Even Retire If I Wanted To\u201d: People With Student Loan Debt Get Real About Biden\u2019s Plan Being On Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s one-time federal student loan debt relief program , which would forgive up to $20,000 in loans for federal borrowers, remains on hold after a federal district judge in Texas declared the program unconstitutional earlier this month. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis issued a nationwide injunction barring the program days later. The whiplash leaves more than 26 million people who applied for relief &#8212;16 million of whom were already approved &#8212; caught in limbo about the future of their federal student loans. Those who were approved received notice from the Department of Education that their debt will be discharged &#8220;if and when we prevail in court.&#8221; But no new applications are being accepted. Meanwhile, Biden announced on Tuesday that the emergency pause on student loan payments put in place during the pandemic would be extended to &#8220;no later than June 30, 2023&#8221; so borrowers would not resume payments while waiting for a decision from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To forgive me for $20,000 is nothing. I&#8217;m 61 years old. I have been working. I&#8217;ve been paying tax.&#8221;<\/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":[22,1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356485","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=356485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}