Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said, “Today’s action removes a major barrier that prevented far too many borrowers with disabilities from receiving the total and permanent disability discharges they are entitled to under the law.”
News: Today, ED announced a new regulation that will provide more than $5.8 billion in automatic student loan discharges to over 323,000 borrowers who have a total & permanent disability (TPD). https://t.co/mou1pKDeSR pic.twitter.com/Dg4yd2JiWh
— U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov) August 19, 2021