In June, two injunctions handed down by federal judges put the SAVE program on hold:

In the Missouri ruling, District Judge John Ross of the Eastern District blocked the Education Department from carrying out " any further loan forgiveness for borrowers" under the SAVE program until he decides the full case. He agreed that the program illegally deprives state loan operators of revenue. SAVE would harm Missouri, he said, because it would reduce the fees that the Education Department pays to the Missouri Higher Education Assistance Agency, the same entity at the center of the Supreme Court's case over Biden's first student debt relief program.
In the Kansas ruling, District Judge Daniel Crabtree blocked the Education Department from implementing a part of the SAVE program that would lower some borrower's monthly payments. However, he declined to block the entirety of the program, citing concerns about unwinding the parts of the program that have already been implemented.

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As a result of this latest ruling, an Education Department spokesperson said in a statement that the agency will continue to "aggressively defend the SAVE plan … We are assessing the impacts of this ruling and will be in touch directly with borrowers with any impacts that affect them."

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Biden's SAVE student loan repayment plan blocked by federal appeals court

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