Considering the Department of Education's original guidance for how borrowers with FFEL and Perkins loans could get student loan forgiveness, the lawsuit alleged that this instruction would cause borrowers to refinance their current loans en masse. "The consolidation of MOHELA’s FFELP loans harms th...
in case the loan forgiveness is limited to student loans that are held by the federal government. Consolidating FFELP loans can also make them eligible for the payment pause and interest waiver, which runs through May 1, 2022.