The Supreme Court will review a lower-court decision that blocked a rule from the Biden administration that helps students defrauded by their colleges to have their loans forgiven. President Joe Biden’s administration has forgiven billions of dollars of student loans under the borrower defense rule.

While grateful to see their loan balance disappear, borrowers who received forgiveness under Biden lament a system they say is holding back millions of others.

Despite the uncertain environment, it’s not too late for borrowers to take some steps to mitigate the loss of some student loan forgiveness benefits.

The Biden administration has withdrawn two major plans to deliver student loan forgiveness. The proposed regulations would have allowed the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education to cancel student loans for several groups of borrowers, including those who had been in repayment for decades and others experiencing financial hardship.

The Biden administration withdrew a proposal to forgive the student debt of borrowers who experienced hardship.

Student-loan borrowers described their financial concerns as they enter the new year, with the fate of key programs like SAVE uncertain.

In the waning days of the Biden administration, activists are urging the Education Department to discharge the student debt of older borrowers who they say are in no position to repay.

The Supreme Court decided Friday to take up the Biden administration’s appeal defending its proposal to ease applications for the Borrower Defense student debt relief program. In a brief order, the justices agreed to review an appeals court ruling that favored a challenge brought by an association of schools in Texas that argue