Court Lifts Ban on Key Part of Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Plan

The court lifted an injunction blocking President Biden’s administration from launching the SAVE plan, allowing it to proceed despite ongoing legal challenges.

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona delivers remarks at the department's Lyndon Baines Johnson Building in Washington, on Jan. 27, 2022. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

President Joe Biden’s administration has been given the green light to move forward with a key part of a new program for some people with student loans while legal challenges to the plan are weighed by courts.

A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit stated in a June 30 decision that it was lifting an injunction that had blocked the administration from starting the program known as the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan.