Newly Proposed Bill Would Forgive Healthcare Workers’ Student Loans
There are many ways to show gratitude for the healthcare professionals that are bravely fighting the COVID-19 pandemic on the frontlines, risking their own health ...
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Posted — UpdatedWhat’s more, in a compassionate nod to those healthcare workers who lost their lives while battling the pandemic, the Student Loan Forgiveness for Frontline Health Workers Act would extend student loan relief to the families and estates of those workers who died due to the coronavirus.
Maloney is trying to usher the bill through Congress as swiftly as possible. Rather than proposing that student loan forgiveness be included in a larger coronavirus relief package, which could get tangled up in partisan squabbling, Maloney aims to introduce the student loan relief initiative as a standalone bill. In her view, targeting relief for healthcare workers specifically has a better chance of passing Congress more quickly.
“We have to get through this crisis now,” Maloney said.
“The best way we can say thanks to our healthcare heroes is to erase the enormous financial burden of their educational debt, a cost that was required to fight and win this war,” Schertz reasoned.
Here’s hoping the bill passes quickly and these courageous professionals find the financial relief they so deserve.
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