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S 4344 117th Congress Senate Education

Zero-Percent Student Loan Refinancing Act

Introduced: May 26, 2022 Introduced by: Whitehouse, Sheldon Democratic · Rhode Island See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
May 26, 2022
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Zero-Percent Student Loan Refinancing Act

This bill establishes temporary refinancing programs for federal and private student loans.

Specifically, the bill establishes a program through which the Department of Education (ED) must make interest-free refinancing loans to borrowers of federal student loans from August 1, 2022, through December 31, 2025.

The bill requires ED to automatically refinance Federal Direct Loans and notify each borrower of the refinancing.

Borrowers who have other types of eligible loans (i.e., Federal Family Education Loans, Federal Perkins Loans, and certain health profession and nursing loans) must apply for refinancing.

The bill also creates the Federal Direct Refinanced Private Loan to allow certain borrowers to refinance their private student loans. Borrowers must apply for refinancing between August 1, 2022, and December 31, 2025.

What's happening now May 26, 2022

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

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