This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to automatically discharge loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program for certain borrowers who are veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. Specifically, ED must automatically discharge a veteran borrower's loan when the Department of Veterans Affairs has assigned the borrower a rating of total disability for a service-connected disability or has determined the borrower to be unemployable due to a service-connected condition, determine whether a state might impose a tax liability for the discharge of such a loan, and provide the borrower with a notification related to potential tax liability and an opportunity to opt out of such loan discharge.
Disability and paralysisDisability assistanceGovernment information and archivesGovernment lending and loan guaranteesHigher educationIncome tax exclusionState and local taxationStudent aid and college costsVeterans' education, employment, rehabilitationVeterans' pensions and compensation
A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to automatically discharge the loans of certain veteran borrowers, and for other purposes.
USA116th CongressS-2049| Senate
| Updated: 6/28/2019
This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to automatically discharge loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program for certain borrowers who are veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. Specifically, ED must automatically discharge a veteran borrower's loan when the Department of Veterans Affairs has assigned the borrower a rating of total disability for a service-connected disability or has determined the borrower to be unemployable due to a service-connected condition, determine whether a state might impose a tax liability for the discharge of such a loan, and provide the borrower with a notification related to potential tax liability and an opportunity to opt out of such loan discharge.
Disability and paralysisDisability assistanceGovernment information and archivesGovernment lending and loan guaranteesHigher educationIncome tax exclusionState and local taxationStudent aid and college costsVeterans' education, employment, rehabilitationVeterans' pensions and compensation