{"id":356760,"date":"2022-11-23T22:07:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T22:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=356760"},"modified":"2022-11-24T00:11:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:11:31","slug":"6-other-ways-sc-student-loan-borrowers-can-seek-relief-if-the-biden-forgiveness-plan-falls-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/6-other-ways-sc-student-loan-borrowers-can-seek-relief-if-the-biden-forgiveness-plan-falls-through","title":{"rendered":"6 other ways SC student loan borrowers can seek relief if the Biden forgiveness plan falls through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worried you&#8217;ll be stuck with thousands of dollars in debt because the federal student loan forgiveness program might be canceled? You could have other options for debt relief. The Biden administration announced on Tuesday it will extend the pause of federal student loan payments through June. The announcement comes after a recent federal appeals court ruling that imposed a nationwide injunction on the administration&#8217;s student loan forgiveness plan unveiled earlier this year. The plan would cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt. While the administration plans to fight through the litigation hurdles, there&#8217;s no guarantee the debt forgiveness plan will proceed. Currently, there are 42.8 million borrowers who owe about $1.6 trillion in federal student loans. Borrowers owe around $37,000 each on average. But while the federal student loan forgiveness plan is in limbo, there are other options that some borrowers can take to get relief that they might not know about. Here are six other ways to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the legitimacy of the Biden administration&#8217;s federal student loan forgiveness plan under fire in the courts, borrowers might want to consider backup plans.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-356760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356760","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=356760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}