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The move would delay the repayment of student loans until August 31. The payment pause was previously slated to end May 1. Roughly 37 million student loan borrowers have been in limbo for several months over whether the payment pause would be extended. More than 43 million borrowers hold more than $1.6 trillion in student loans debt.
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This comes as a group of Democratic lawmakers at the end of March sent a letter to the president calling on him to delay payments resuming until at least the end of the year, noting it saved borrowers an average of $393 a month during the pandemic. The federal student loan payment pause has already resulted in $195 billion worth of waived payments through this April.
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The Biden administration has already extended the federal student loan payment pause several times. In December, it pushed the deadline back 90 days from the end of January to May despite claiming earlier when they extended over the summer that it would be the "final" extension.