Student vets get help with loan forgiveness thanks to judge’s rulings

Despite having robust GI Bill education benefits, hundreds — perhaps thousands — of student veterans contend they were deceived into racking up federal loan debt through abusive practices of certain for-profit colleges.
On Tuesday, the students, along with thousands of non-veterans, gained an easier path to loan forgiveness from a federal court ruling in Washington, D.C.
U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss dismissed legal arguments from an association of for-profit colleges, which succeeded for more than a year in blocking Obama administration rules to bring financial relief to defrauded student borrowers and to strengthen federal protections against deceptive school practices.
The Trump administration’s Department of Education also had fought the Obama reforms until a month ago, when the same judge rejected legal arguments from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and administration attorneys.