{"id":51747,"date":"2022-08-24T07:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51747"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:10:09","slug":"biden-cancels-some-student-loan-debt-extends-pandemic-payment-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51747","title":{"rendered":"Biden cancels some student loan debt, extends pandemic payment pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden officially announced on Wednesday that his administration is forgiving up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 annually and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, marking the largest forgiveness of federal student loans per individual to date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Biden also again extended a payment freeze on federal student loans and interest accrual, butting right up against an Aug. 31 deadline that would have kicked bills back into effect just before November&#8217;s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The payment pause is now in effect until Dec. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden officially announced on Wednesday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51748,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51747\/revisions\/51748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}