New US Law Cuts Out Private Lenders for Student Loans
14 April 2010
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Foreign students who need financial aid generally have to seek it from the school itself or their own government or employer.
If you follow the news, then you know that President Obama recently signed health care reform legislation. But one of the two bills he signed into law also made unrelated changes in the federal student loan program.
These changes will require new loans to come directly from the Department of Education. The department already makes these federally guaranteed loans for American citizens and permanent legal residents.
But since nineteen ninety-three it has also paid private lenders to provide them. Now, as of July first, all new loans will go though the direct loan program only.
Officials say the new law will save the government sixty-one billion dollars over ten years. The plan is to use more than half the savings to provide more federal Pell Grants to needy students. A few billion will also go to schools that traditionally serve minorities and to help two-year community colleges.
David Baime is a senior vice president of the American Association of Community Colleges.
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