Even as President Joe Biden's largest efforts to forgive student loans are stalled in legal battles, one of his administration's programs has hit a milestone of erasing debt for 1 million borrowers.

An effort to revive and maximize use of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program has resulted in student loan forgiveness for over one million people.

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration has successfully canceled loans for over one million public workers through a student loan cancellation program. President Joe Biden announced this milestone on Thursday, stating that his administration has honored its commitment to teachers, firefighters, nurses, and other public servants, even while his broader student loan initiatives face legal challenges from Republican-led states. "For too long, the government failed to live up to its commitments," Biden said in a statement. "We vowed to fix that, and because of actions from our administration, now over one million public service workers have gotten the relief they are entitled to under the law." The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, established in 2007, promised college graduates that the remaining balance of their federal student loans would be forgiven after 10 years of employment in government or nonprofit positions. However, starting in 2017, the majority of applicants faced rejection due to complex…

A student loan cancellation program for public workers has granted relief to more than 1 million Americans — up from just 7,000 who were approved before it was updated by the Biden administration two years ago.