{"id":140,"date":"2020-03-20T15:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T19:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=140"},"modified":"2020-08-31T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:14:29","slug":"amidst-coronavirus-chaos-federal-student-loan-borrowers-catch-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/20\/amidst-coronavirus-chaos-federal-student-loan-borrowers-catch-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Amidst Coronavirus Chaos, Federal Student Loan Borrowers Catch a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronavirus continues to impact jobs and financial stability across the nation, President Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a>\u00a0Friday that he will allow federal student loan borrowers to take a break from making their monthly payments without penalty for at least the next two months. The Education Department also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/delivering-president-trumps-promise-secretary-devos-suspends-federal-student-loan-payments-waives-interest-during-national-emergency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that it would set the interest rates on all federally held student loans to zero until at least May 12.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/tanvishah.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tanvi Shah<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/updateeducation\/2020\/03\/20\/federal-student-loan-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the Duane Morris <em>UpdatED <\/em>Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronavirus continues to impact jobs and financial stability across the nation, President Trump\u00a0announced\u00a0Friday that he will allow federal student loan borrowers to take a break from making their monthly payments without penalty for at least the next two months. The Education Department also\u00a0announced\u00a0that it would set the interest rates on all federally held &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/20\/amidst-coronavirus-chaos-federal-student-loan-borrowers-catch-a-break\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amidst Coronavirus Chaos, Federal Student Loan Borrowers Catch a Break&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[264,140],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-loans","tag-student-loans"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}