Watchdog Reveals Fraud Risks in Biden’s Canceled $430 Billion Student Debt Relief Plan

Published on November 17, 2023

A recent government report has highlighted serious lapses in safeguards against potential fraud in President Joe Biden’s scuttled plan to unilaterally forgive $430 billion in student loan debt. The Biden plan, announced in August 2022, aimed to provide relief ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 for 31 million federal student loan holders. Mired in legal challenges, court orders halted the program in November 2022 before the U.S. Supreme Court struck the final blow in June. The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report, released Thursday, revealed that the U.S. Department of Education’s handling of the initiative lacked critical measures to ascertain whether the recipients’ incomes justified the debt forgiveness....

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