Make income-based student loan repayment easier to access and allow payment pauses for borrowers entering high-need careers or starting businesses.

The student debt section says repayment enrollment should be simpler and pauses should be available during certain career transitions.

Hassan proposed simplifying income-based repayment and creating targeted repayment pauses.

Innovate NH 2.0: A Granite State Roadmap for Fostering Innovation, Supporting Job-Creating Businesses and Expanding Opportunity
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Within the lookback window, reporting based on borrower notices and servicer statements said SAVE borrowers began receiving 90-day notices on July 1, 2026 to leave SAVE; borrowers who do not choose another plan may be moved to standard or tiered standard repayment, while remaining in forbearance during transition.

The latest concrete status is reversal/phase-out of the Biden-era income-driven SAVE plan, not stable completion of the promised easier access framework.

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Student-loan borrowers are getting their first batch of notices to switch repayment plans
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The enacted law provides that beginning July 1, 2026, new Direct Loan borrowers are offered two repayment choices: a standard repayment plan or the income-based Repayment Assistance Plan, and borrowers who make no selection are placed in standard repayment.

Federal law created a new income-based repayment option, but it did not automatically route non-choosing borrowers into income-based repayment and therefore only partially matches easier access.

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Public Law 119-21 compilation, GovInfo
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The same enacted law sunsets unemployment and economic-hardship deferments for borrowers receiving new Direct Loans on or after July 1, 2027, and limits forbearance on those loans to no more than nine months in any 24-month period.

Instead of adding payment pauses for borrowers entering high-need careers or starting businesses, the later federal statute narrows future deferment and forbearance options.

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Public Law 119-21 compilation, GovInfo
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The archived White House fact sheet described SAVE as an income-driven repayment plan based on income and family size, with a short application, automatic enrollment for REPAYE borrowers, automatic enrollment for some delinquent borrowers with tax-data consent, and no manual annual income recertification.

SAVE partially delivered the easier-access income-driven repayment portion of the promise before later litigation and statutory phase-out disrupted it.

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FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Administration Launches the SAVE Plan
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Reporting on the district-court ruling said the case and injunctions were dismissed, potentially allowing SAVE payments and forgiveness again, but the Education Department had not lifted administrative forbearance and the plan was still scheduled for statutory phase-out.

The court development showed temporary legal relief but continuing administrative uncertainty, so the income-driven repayment access piece remained unstable rather than fully delivered.

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Court Revives Biden-Era Student Loan Repayment Plan
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The Senate roll-call list records H.R. 1, as amended, passing 50-50 on July 1, 2025, and records a rejected Hassan motion to commit H.R. 1 to the Finance Committee on June 30, 2025.

Hassan took concrete procedural action against the broader reconciliation bill that later contained student-loan repayment and deferment changes, but the effort failed and did not deliver the promise.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session (2025)
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