Obama Plans Initiative to Ease Payments on Education Loans
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Almost 6 million people with federal student loans would see their payments reduced under an Obama administration plan that would let them consolidate debt.
The plan also would accelerate imposition of a cap on payments at 10 percent of income for some people with federal education loans by having it take effect next year rather than in 2014, Melody Barnes, White House domestic policy adviser, told reporters.