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Obama Admin Sets New Income-Based Repayment Goal
The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it wants to enroll an additional two million federal student loan borrowers in income-based repayment programs in the next year.
Already some 4.8 million federal loan borrowers are using some type of income-based repayment programs, which the Obama administration has expanded. Enrollment in income-based repayment programs has more than doubled over the past several years, yet officials said that far more borrowers could benefit from them.
The White House said that it had partnered with some colleges and businesses to help further spread the word about such programs. And the Education Department said it would boost its efforts to target borrowers who would be most helped by the plans.
Obama administration officials also announced that they plan to revamp and standardize how federal student loan servicers provide information about borrowers to credit reporting agencies. In addition, the Education Department said it would seek to set clearer standards for how it wants loan servicers to collect federal loans.
In the meantime, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it was working on new disclosure forms that loan servicers would send to borrowers, providing customized information about which loan repayment programs are best for their circumstances.
Much of the changes to loan servicing that the Obama administration is promising depend on how the Education Department develops its new contracts with loan servicers. “We hope to make progress there by the end of the year,” Education Secretary John B. King said of that process.
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