After two years of legal battles and confusion for student loan borrowers, a popular student loan repayment plan will be shut down — forcing over 7 million borrowers to find a new option.
On Friday the Department of Education alerted borrowers on the federal Saving on a Valuable Education plan that they would need to switch to a different federal repayment plan by the end of September.
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