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Millions of federal student loan borrowers are worried about what will happen with the Biden Administration’s student debt relief plan after a Texas court barred the program from moving forward for the khbrknews being.
At least 26 million people have applied for the program that aims to cancel up to $20,000 in debt per eligible borrower. On Friday, the relief program announced on their website that they had stopped accepting applications due to the court decision, but said they are working to “overturn those orders.” Some borrowers are now concerned about whether the delays will continue and if the promised debt relief will still happen at all.
“I think it’s going to take much longer than we initially were hoping, and that’s kind of defeating,” Emily Archer, a recent graduate in health and nutrition studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, tells TIME. “So many things are out of reach for our generation. Being able to accumulate wealth is just not part of my future.”
The Texas ruling is the second major attempt to strike down the program, coming after a U.S. Appeals court temporarily blocked the program last month to review a case from six Republican-led states. Other lawsuits have primarily been rejected in court for lacking standing.
The Education Department’s student debt relief program was committed to begin relieving debt by Dec. 31, but has faced intense scrutiny and legal action from conservative opponents. Uncertainty over the results and length of court battles could derail plans for those who already applied for relief, as well as millions more who are eligible.
The most recent lawsuit, which was brought by the Job Creators Network Foundation, claimed that the relief program violated the Administrative Procedure Act because the administration did not seek public comment on the plan, and…
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