Higher education

Student Loans After SAVE: From the Court Block to the Repayment Assistance Plan

Courts blocked the Biden administration’s SAVE repayment plan in 2024, placing roughly eight million enrollees into a no-payment, no-interest forbearance. The Eighth Circuit later ordered SAVE vacated, and the Department of Education began moving borrowers out of the plan after Congress created the Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP) and Tiered Standard plan in 2025.