3.0.0 4345 2023-08-18T15:45:19Z 2023-08-18T15:45:19Z Senate S 2022-05-26 117 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2022-05-26T20:06:56Z Strengthening and Improving Public Service Loan Forgiveness Act of 2022 117 8330 HR 2022-07-12 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Related bill CRS 2022-05-26 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2022-05-26 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI N M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2022-05-26 True Education Education 00 2022-05-26 Introduced in Senate 2023-08-18T15:40:51Z Simplifying and Strengthening Public Service Loan Forgiveness Act

This bill makes changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, including by (1) lowering the number of monthly payments required for loan forgiveness from 120 to 60; and (2) making permanent certain limited waivers, such as a waiver that allowed certain late or partial loan payments to count as qualifying payments for PSLF loan forgiveness.

]]> Simplifying and Strengthening Public Service Loan Forgiveness Act Display Title Simplifying and Strengthening Public Service Loan Forgiveness Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Simplifying and Strengthening Public Service Loan Forgiveness Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to amend the public service loan forgiveness program. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s4345is/xml/BILLS-117s4345is.xml 2022-05-26 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.