The U.S. Department of Education has resumed student loan forgiveness for some borrowers under a repayment program that has been suspended since July.

Borrowers who have been in repayment for decades and are eligible for debt cancellation under the Income-Based Repayment plan (IBR) are receiving notices that they qualify for the relief, companies that collect payments on the government’s behalf, told the Washington Post . The cancellations began last week.

Roughly 2 million people are enrolled in the IBR plan. However, not all borrowers have made enough payments to qualify for forgiveness.

Those who do qualify have started to receive emails from the department stating, “You’re eligible to have your student loan(s) discharged,” and that the department is working with the borrower’s ser

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