Subsidy-Rate Proposal in Bill Could Aid Lenders | The Chronicle of Higher Education

Jason Delisle

January 16, 2009 |

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Federal student loans issued since 2000 would be eligible for subsidies based on the new calculation. The New America Foundation, which drew attention to the proposed change on its Higher Ed Watch blog, estimated that the change would increase the subsidy rate by 0.5 percentage points...

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