S. 1203 — What You Can Do For Your Country Act

Summary

What You Can Do For Your Country Act

This bill revises the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, including by

allowing borrowers with loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program to be eligible for the PSLF program,
allowing borrowers to receive loan forgiveness on half of their total loans after satisfying 60 qualifying payment obligations,
revising provisions related to loan consolidation,
revising the types of payments that count toward qualifying payment obligations,
defining full-time employment as 30 hours per week,
requiring the Department of Education (ED) to provide certain notices to borrowers,
revising the process for certification of employment,
requiring ED to establish a database of qualifying employers,
providing a process for borrowers to satisfy past monthly payment obligations,
requiring lenders to provide to ED necessary borrower repayment history information, and
requiring ED to establish a dispute resolution process.

H.R. 3102HIGHER ED Act
2019-06-28Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
Related
H.R. 2441What You Can Do For Your Country Act
2019-05-01Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Related

2019-04-11
Introduced in Senate
2019-04-11
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.