Americans who survive a terrorist attack should get an automatic one-year deferment on their federal student loan payments, according to a bill introduced by Marco Rubio, a Republican senator from Florida. “Giving survivors some time to regroup by delaying their student loan payments is just commonsense.”The Terrorism Survivors Student Loan Deferment Act would “provide a one-year pause for victims”, allowing them time to “get back on their feet”, or to apply for additional loan deferments, according to Rubio’s office. Some of the reactions to Rubio’s bill were strongly negative, with commenters suggesting the policy proposal was an insulting response to America’s sweeping student loan crisis. Congratulations to Marco Rubio for literally doing the least that he could possibly do to address the student loan crisis. https://t.co/c0SqWuY0sD — Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) June 10, 2021More than 40 million Americans have federal student loan debt.

Source: The Guardian June 11, 2021 01:18 UTC