About nine million people received an email last month from the Department of Education that mistakenly said their application for student loan forgiveness had been approved https://t.co/uLjOvZI4rf pic.twitter.com/KK2Q9cFxdG
— CNN (@CNN) December 14, 2022
Thus far, no one has received debt forgiveness because the program is blocked by federal courts. But there are some borrowers who were already deemed eligible for debt relief by the Department of Education.
The nine million borrowers who received the inaccurate emails have now started to receive new emails from the government correcting the error. While their applications were received, they have yet to be approved or rejected.
“Due to a vendor error, you recently received an email with a subject line indicating your application for the one-time Student Loan Debt Relief Plan had been approved. The subject line was inaccurate,” reads an email sent Tuesday and obtained by CNN.
But the body of the email, which confirmed receipt of the borrower’s application, was correct.
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