Thousands of disabled vets stuck repaying student debt
The U.S. Department of Education continues to seek repayment on more than $1 billion in federal student loans from tens of thousands of severely disabled veterans who have been deemed unable to work and are eligible for student loan forgiveness.
The news comes out of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Veterans Education Success, a nonprofit that provides free services to veterans, back in June that was answered around Veteran's Day.
In response to the advocacy group's request, the Education Department says it has identified more than 40,000 service members who qualify to have their student debt cancelled, through what is called a "total and permanent disability discharge."
Just 8,500 of the veterans have applied for the loan forgiveness, however, and half of them are in default. The government did not say it has discharged any of the debts of these eligible veterans.
"It's disturbing," said David Bergeron, a former Education Department official. "The current leadership has hired people who want to protect for-profit institutions more than they want to protect students and veterans."
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