As thousands of applications for student debt forgiveness poured into the U.S. Education Department, the Trump administration cut the staff working on the claims and ordered a halt to an overhaul of the system, according to the agency’s inspector general.
The result: Claims lingered month after month.
A letter from the agency watchdog to Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), obtained Wednesday by The Washington Post, sheds light on the Education Department’s controversial handling of more than 100,000 debt relief claims submitted by defrauded student loan borrowers.
Read more at The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/06/14/trump-administration-undermined-student-debt-relief-unit-while-claims-mounted-watchdog-finds/