The Department of Education announced Tuesday that it would be implementing new criteria for a series of existing student loan forgiveness programs, potentially expanding eligibility to millions of borrowers.

Under the new actions announced by the agency, 40,000 student loan borrowers would immediately become eligible for student loan forgiveness, while an additional 3.6 million borrowers would eventually become eligible.

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