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- The Trump administration issued its final rule, which will restrict workers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program if the organization they work for is deemed to be engaging in “unlawful” activities.
- Advocates have criticized the rule, saying it politicizes the PSLF program and could harm workers at organizations that support immigrant families, medical care for transgender youth, or diversity in the workplace.
President Donald Trump’s administration has finalized a rule that will change which nonprofit and public sector employees can get student loan forgiveness.
The Department of Education issued its final rule Thursday morning, which will restrict nonprofit workers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program if the Trump administration deems the nonprofit’s work “unlawful.”
The PSLF program forgives the remainder of student loans held by public service workers, such as teachers, firefighters and some nonprofit workers, after 120 qualifying payments. The Department of Education rule would exclude workers from the program if their employers “engage in activities” that have “substantial illegal purposes.”
The final rule will be published in the Federal Register on October 31, 2025, and will become effective on July 1, 2026.
The agency specifically said it would apply the rule to organizations that violate federal immigration laws, support terrorism, engage in gender-affirming care for minors, or use unlawful discrimination.
“When an organization has a pattern or practice of engaging in certain illegal conduct, it has a significant illegal purpose because a significant amount of its activities support illegal activity. Illegal activity is inherently contrary to the public interest,” the Department of Education said in a statement.
Why is this important?
Public service workers generally earn less money than their counterparts in the private sector and are more likely to carry student loan debt. If public sector workers are denied student loan forgiveness because their organization is deemed illegal, they will remain stuck in their debt for longer than they expected.
Some legal analysts and advocacy groups say Al Qaeda is politicizing the SLF’s platform. Some legal analysts say workers at nonprofit advocacy groups, hospitals that support immigrant families, gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, or diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace could be stripped of their eligibility for PSLF under the new rules.
Student loan advocacy groups Democracy Forward and Protect Borrowers said in a joint statement that they will take legal action to stop the rule.
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