POLITICO reported last year that the Trump administration suspended the process of forgiving hundreds of millions of dollars in student loans owed by veterans with severe disabilities, despite a presidential pledge the debts would be easily erased. OMB later approved the regulatory fix needed to carry out the automatic loan forgiveness.
— Advocates are demanding that DeVos offer quarterly, in-person updates about potential problems and to “make whole” veterans who were wrongly put in default. Read the full letter, via Veterans Education Success.
Read the full story by Politico Morning Ed, Nearly Two Dozen Veteran and Military Service Organizations Are Continuing to Press DeVos” published January 29, 2019.