[After a lawsuit], about 15,000 people have been flagged by the Education Department as eligible. About $80 million of the $150 million debt is attributed to the now-defunct Corinthian schools. Those eligible for loan forgiveness must have been enrolled at the school when it closed and not enrolled at another Title-IV school within three years.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, the Education Committee chair, previously argued the "Obama administration went too far in rewriting this provision by setting overly broad and vague standards and as a result, put taxpayers on the hook for too many loans."
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