BlindBoo
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"When Biden announced his plan, he didn’t issue an executive order. Rather, his administration drew on the HEROES Act, a law passed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that allows relief from student loan payments during times of war or national emergency.
The Donald Trump and Biden administrations repeatedly used the law to pause payments on student loans since the coronavirus pandemic started in early 2020. (Under Biden’s plan, that pause would end in January 2023.)
In a legal opinion, Biden’s Education Department broke with the Trump-era department in advising that the same law could be used not just to pause payments, but also to forgive debt.
The HEROES Act, the department wrote, "grants the Secretary (of Education) authority that could be used to effectuate a program of targeted loan cancellation directed at addressing the financial harms of the COVID-19 pandemic." This authority, the legal memo says, can be used to "address the financial harms of such a war, other military operation, or emergency," such as the COVID-19 pandemic."
![www.statesman.com](https://www.statesman.com/gcdn/presto/2022/08/25/USAT/00fac78a-b161-4afd-884e-b923b82a6696-AP_Biden_Student_Loans.jpg?crop=5013,2820,x0,y171&width=3200&height=1801&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
Fact-check: Is Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan legal?
Legal experts say Supreme Court has been skeptical of agencies exerting broad powers like these in the absence of congressional consent.
www.statesman.com
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