According to the Utah System of Higher Education, students who held any federal loan debt in Utah will be affected by the Supreme Court's ruling.
SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked President Joe Biden's plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt per person.
Sierra Mendoza is incoming senior studying biology at the University of Utah. She is a first-generation college student and has had to take out loans to pay for her schooling. Mendoza said she is disappointed, but not surprised, by the Supreme Court's decision to block the Biden administration's plan to implement student loan forgiveness.Under the plan announced by the Secretary of Education last August, those who received a Pell Grant would have been eligible for up to $20,000 in student loan forgiveness.Chris Peterson, a law professor at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, worries about who this decision could impact the most.
Bill Duncan, an attorney and religious liberty fellow at the Sutherland Institute, believes the Supreme Court made the right decision.
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