Eliminate the student loan marriage penalty by allowing each spouse to claim the full student loan interest tax deduction independently.

Glenn Grothman · Wisconsin · Republican

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This week, I reintroduced the bipartisan Student Loan Marriage Penalty Elimination Act. This bill will eliminate a government-imposed punishment for marriage and ease the burden of student loan debt by amending the tax code to ensure that student loan interest is tax-deductible for each spouse independently.

Grothman says he reintroduced a bill to remove the marriage penalty in student loan interest deductions.

Representative Glenn Grothman
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Evidence

IRS Topic 456 says the student loan interest deduction is not available if your filing status is married filing separately, and the page was last reviewed on 2026-06-03.

Current federal tax guidance still contains the marriage-status restriction, so the promised independent deduction fix has not been delivered.

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Topic no. 456, Student loan interest deduction | Internal Revenue Service
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On 2026-05-21, Grothman announced the OPT Fair Tax Act, a tax bill aimed at payroll-tax treatment for OPT workers rather than student-loan interest deductibility.

During the lookback window he was active on tax legislation, but I found no official action on the student-loan marriage-penalty fix itself.

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Grothman Introduces OPT Fair Tax Act to End Tax Loophole Favoring Foreign Workers Over American Graduates | U.S. Representative Glenn Grothman
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The promised change has not been delivered: current IRS guidance still bars the student loan interest deduction for taxpayers who are married filing separately, so spouses still cannot each independently claim the full deduction. The provided evidence also does not show Grothman wrote, sponsored, or materially advanced legislation to remove this marriage-related restriction, so there is no basis for full or partial delivery credit.

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