August 2, 2002

Loan-Repayment Program for Federal Employees Draws Only One Taker

A much-ballyhooed loan-repayment program was supposed to attract new blood to the federal government. Instead, it seems to be on life support.

Last year, only one person out of the more than 1.6-million eligible employees in 53 federal agencies took advantage of a government offer to help pay off student-loan debt. The program, intended to make government jobs more attractive to young people, allows federal agencies to give employees up to $6,000 each in a calendar year, with a

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