Virginia colleges, universities sit on billions while Biden shifts student loan repayments to taxpayers

• A final extension on the student loan repayment freeze will extend to December 31, 2022. Payments will resume beginning January 2023
• The U.S. Department of Education will provide up to $20,000 in debt cancellation for Pell Grant recipients and up to $10,000 for non-Pell Grant recipients. Borrowers eligible for this relief must have individual income less than $125,000 or $250,000 for households. Borrowers who are employed by nonprofits, the military, or federal/state/tribal/local governments may be able to have all student loans forgiven in a limited window through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. That window will expire on October 31, 2022.
• A rule proposed by the administration would create a new income-driven repayment plan to reduce future monthly payments for lower and middle-income borrowers. Aspects of this plan would include forgiving loan balances after 10 years, covering borrower's unpaid monthly interest, lowering the payments from 10% to 5% of monthly discretionary income on undergraduate loans, and raising the income amount that is considered non-discretionary which would protect it from repayment.

Interested parties must sign-up for the department's newsletter when the process has begun and have until December 31 to apply.

While student loan forgiveness has been an issue of natural interest for some time, colleges and universities countrywide have sat on endowments worth millions of dollars or more.

The following is a list of colleges and universities and the current amount of their endowments as recorded on DataUSA: