An Update on Student Debt Relief and What this Means for Chapter 13 Practitioners

What is the Student Debt Relief Plan?

On August 24, 2022, President Joe Biden announced a three-part student debt relief plan to help borrowers transition back to regular payments as pandemic-related support expires. The plan includes loan forgiveness of up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients with loans held by the Department of Education and up to $10,000 in debt relief to non-Pell Grant recipients. Borrowers are eligible for this relief if their individual income is less than $125,000 or $250,000 for households.

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MaryAnn Bennett Bride, Esq.

Staff Attorney to Lon A. Jenkins, the Standing Chapter 13 Trustee (District of Utah)

MaryAnn Bennett Bride is a staff attorney to Lon A. Jenkins, the Standing Chapter 13 Trustee for the District of Utah, where she has worked since 2016. Prior to joining the Trustee, she managed the Bankruptcy Department at Select Portfolio Servicing (SPS), a nationwide mortgage servicer. Prior to SPS, she began her legal career representing consumer debtors. She graduated from the Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2010 and received an Honors B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Public Communication from the University of Utah in 2007. In her free time, she can be found cheering for Real Salt Lake (Major League Soccer) or gardening. She lives in Bountiful, Utah, with her husband and three, young children.

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An Update on Student Debt Relief and What this Means for Chapter 13 Practitioners

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