Cutting Interest Rates, Lowering Student Debt – Updated
In 2007 Congress passed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act. The bill included several provisions to lessen the burden of student debt including:
- More than two billion dollars a year in additional funding for the Pell Grant program. The Pell Grant helps more than 5 million lower-income students each year.
- A new Income-Based Repayment program that allows student loan borrowers to repay their federal loans as a percentage of their income.
- Reductions in interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans.