Education Department Cancels $3.9 Billion of Student Debt for Former ITT Tech Students
The Department of Education (ED) announced on Tuesday it would cancel $3.9 billion worth of federal student loans owed by former students of ITT Technical Institute (ITT), a for-profit college that shut down in?September 2016.??
The announcement states that all remaining federal student loans that borrowers received to attend ITT from Jan. 1, 2005, through its closure in September 2016, will be discharged. The decision amounts to 208,000 borrowers receiving $3.9 billion in full loan discharges and includes borrowers who have not yet applied for a borrower defense to repayment discharge.?
Broker Associate @ Equity Union
2 年Was that from tax payers money?