S. 1203

Referred to Committee

What You Can Do For Your Country Act

Introduced 4/11/2019•116th Congress•Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

4/11/2019 • Senate

Summary

What You Can Do For Your Country Act

This bill revises the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, including by

allowing borrowers with loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program to be eligible for the PSLF program,
allowing borrowers to receive loan forgiveness on half of their total loans after satisfying 60 qualifying payment obligations,
revising provisions related to loan consolidation,
revising the types of payments that count toward qualifying payment obligations,
defining full-time employment as 30 hours per week,
requiring the Department of Education (ED) to provide certain notices to borrowers,
revising the process for certification of employment,
requiring ED to establish a database of qualifying employers,
providing a process for borrowers to satisfy past monthly payment obligations,
requiring lenders to provide to ED necessary borrower repayment history information, and
requiring ED to establish a dispute resolution process.

Introduced in Senate • 4/11/2019

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Topics & Subjects

Policy Area: Education

Family servicesFirst responders and emergency personnelGovernment information and archivesGovernment lending and loan guaranteesHealth personnelHigher educationLaw enforcement officersLawyers and legal servicesLibraries and archivesMilitary personnel and dependentsNursingPreschool educationSocial work, volunteer service, charitable organizationsStudent aid and college costsTeaching, teachers, curricula