September 13, 2002

Loan-Forgiveness Ceiling for Teachers May Increase

By RICHARD MORGAN

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce approved a measure last week that would allow the government to forgive up to $17,500 of teachers' student-loan debts, an increase from the current $5,000 ceiling. An amendment to the legislation would also grant loan forgiveness to the spouses of emergency-service workers killed or "permanently and totally disabled" from injuries suffered in the September 11 attacks.

Since Congress extended the Higher Education

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