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The department said guidance for SAVE borrowers would follow within weeks.", "type": "legal", "entities": [ "U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit", "John Ross", "U.S. Department of Education", "Missouri", "SAVE Plan" ], "parties": [ "us-court-of-appeals-for-the-eighth-circuit", "john-ross", "us-department-of-education", "missouri", "save-plan" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nasfaa.org/news-item/38400/Federal_Appeals_Court_Reverses_SAVE_Dismissal_Advancing_ED_and_Missouri_s_Settlement", "outlet": "NASFAA", "published": "2026-03-11", "quote": "However, on Monday, a three-judge panel for the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Ross’s dismissal, directing the district court to enter a final judgment on ED and Missouri’s settlement." }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/save-plan-for-student-loan-borrowers-is-over-federal-appeals-court-.html", "outlet": "CNBC", "published": "2026-03-10", "quote": "In a judgment issued late Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit reversed a lower court's dismissal of a Republican-led legal challenge against SAVE." } ] }, { "timeline": "student-loan-repayment-overhaul", "id": 521, "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/student-loan-repayment-overhaul#n521", "date": "2026-02-27", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Judge Ross throws out the SAVE case rather than bless the settlement", "summary": "Judge John Ross of the Eastern District of Missouri dismissed the lawsuit and the proposed settlement, finding no live controversy because both sides now wanted SAVE gone and Congress had already scheduled its end for July 1, 2028. The order neither revived nor struck down SAVE, leaving seven million enrollees in limbo and prompting a separate borrower suit demanding the plan be implemented.", "type": "legal", "entities": [ "John Ross", "U.S. Department of Education", "Missouri", "SAVE Plan" ], "parties": [ "john-ross", "us-department-of-education", "missouri", "save-plan" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nasfaa.org/news-item/38324/Court_Dismisses_ED_s_SAVE_Settlement_Leaving_More_Questions_for_Borrowers", "outlet": "NASFAA", "published": "2026-03-02", "quote": "On Friday, in a court order, Judge John Ross of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri dismissed this settlement, arguing that there is “no longer a live case or controversy sufficient,” therefore, the court doesn’t have authority to enter a judgment." } ] }, { "timeline": "student-loan-repayment-overhaul", "id": 517, "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/student-loan-repayment-overhaul#n517", "date": "2025-12-09", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Department and Missouri agree to end SAVE outright", "summary": "Rather than litigate to judgment, the department and Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway proposed a joint settlement under which the department would enroll no new borrowers in SAVE, deny pending applications and move all enrollees into other plans. The department put SAVE's ten-year cost at more than $342 billion and said more than seven million borrowers were still in the forbearance.", "type": "legal", "entities": [ "U.S. Department of Education", "Missouri", "Nicholas Kent", "Catherine Hanaway", "SAVE Plan" ], "parties": [ "us-department-of-education", "missouri", "nicholas-kent", "catherine-hanaway", "save-plan" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-announces-agreement-missouri-end-biden-administrations-illegal-save-plan", "outlet": "U.S. Department of Education", "published": "2025-12-09", "quote": "As part of the proposed joint settlement agreement, the Department will not enroll any new borrowers in the illegal SAVE Plan, deny any pending applications, and move all SAVE borrowers into legal repayment plans." } ] }, { "timeline": "student-loan-repayment-overhaul", "id": 505, "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/student-loan-repayment-overhaul#n505", "date": "2025-02-18", "date_precision": "day", "title": "Eighth Circuit orders the entire SAVE rule enjoined, and forgiveness under older plans with it", "summary": "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the preliminary injunction against SAVE and told the district court to broaden it to the whole rule plus the revived REPAYE forgiveness provisions, holding that the states were likely to prove the Secretary of Education cannot forgive loans at the end of an income-contingent repayment plan. The ruling put the legality of PAYE and ICR forgiveness in doubt too, and the department pulled the online income-driven repayment application a week later.", "type": "legal", "entities": [ "U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit", "Missouri", "U.S. Department of Education", "SAVE Plan" ], "parties": [ "us-court-of-appeals-for-the-eighth-circuit", "missouri", "us-department-of-education", "save-plan" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca8/24-2351/24-2351-2025-02-18.html", "outlet": "U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (via Justia)", "published": "2025-02-18", "quote": "In sum, we affirm the district court’s entry of a preliminary injunction and remand for further proceedings and with instructions to modify the preliminary injunction to enjoin the entire SAVE Rule as well as the hybrid rule." } ] } ], "often_with": [ { "id": "donald-trump", "name": "Donald Trump", "url": "https://whatledto.com/who/donald-trump", "json": "https://whatledto.com/who/donald-trump.json", "shared_timelines": 1 }, { "id": "us-department-of-the-treasury", "name": "U.S. Department of the Treasury", "url": "https://whatledto.com/who/us-department-of-the-treasury", "json": "https://whatledto.com/who/us-department-of-the-treasury.json", "shared_timelines": 1 }, { "id": "anna-grunseth", "name": "Anna Grunseth", "url": "https://whatledto.com/who/anna-grunseth", "json": "https://whatledto.com/who/anna-grunseth.json", "shared_timelines": 1 }, { "id": "elizabeth-robeson", "name": "Elizabeth Robeson", "url": "https://whatledto.com/who/elizabeth-robeson", "json": "https://whatledto.com/who/elizabeth-robeson.json", "shared_timelines": 1 }, { "id": "heather-havens", "name": "Heather Havens", "url": "https://whatledto.com/who/heather-havens", "json": "https://whatledto.com/who/heather-havens.json", "shared_timelines": 1 }, { "id": "linda-mcmahon", "name": "Linda McMahon", "url": "https://whatledto.com/who/linda-mcmahon", "json": "https://whatledto.com/who/linda-mcmahon.json", "shared_timelines": 1 }, { "id": "nicholas-kent", "name": "Nicholas Kent", "url": "https://whatledto.com/who/nicholas-kent", "json": "https://whatledto.com/who/nicholas-kent.json", "shared_timelines": 1 }, { "id": "scott-bessent", "name": "Scott Bessent", "url": "https://whatledto.com/who/scott-bessent", "json": "https://whatledto.com/who/scott-bessent.json", "shared_timelines": 1 } ], "license": { "holder": "What Led To", "terms": "https://whatledto.com/methodology#reuse", "summary": "Quote entries with attribution and a link to the entry; do not republish whole timelines or train models on the text." } }