Student loan payment pause will end this year, education secretary confirms
“The pause on federal student loan payments is still set to end later this year, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona confirmed this week. The pandemic-related pause has been in place for more than three years and has been extended eight times – even sometimes after the Biden administration declared the latest extension was final. But Cardona reiterated Tuesday that the current timeline remains in place. It ties the restart date to litigation over the administration’s separate, one-time student loan forgiveness program, which has been taken up by the Supreme Court.”