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It's been five months since a federal court ordered Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to give defrauded student loan borrowers relief, but more than 100,000 people are still waiting to hear whether their debt will be canceled.The Obama-era rule, known as Borrower Defense to Repayment, allows students who believe they were defrauded by their college to apply for loan forgiveness. The idea is that if they didn't get the education they were promised, they shouldn't have to pay back their debt.The number of these applications soared as the Obama administration cracked down on for-profit colleges. Sometimes nursing students, for example, found out after finishing their program that it didn't have the right accreditation -- keeping them from getting a job.As of last fall, more than 200,000 people had applied for loan forgiveness, a majority of whom went to for-profit colleges. Nearly 48,000 received debt relief and 9,000 have been denied.But no applications were processed between June and September of last year, the most recent data available, as the administration fought implementing the rule. But they continued to pile up. The department received an additional 35,000 claims during that time period.An Education Department spokeswoman did not respond Monday to questions about how many claims had been processed since the October ruling ordering the administration to move ahead with loan forgiveness.In December, the department announced that it would begin canceling loans for borrowers eligible for a specific type of loan cancellation. There is an automatic loan discharge for those whose schools closed while they were enrolled.As of March 1, the department has forgiven more than 8 million in debt to about 16,000 borrowers that qualified for a closed-school discharge, according to data the National Student Legal Defense Network obtained from the Department of Education in connection with a lawsuit. The group sued the department in November for allegedly continuing to collect on these loans.In a lot of these cases, the government eats the cost. Only federally-backed loans are eligible for forgiveness. About half of the debt forgiven was owed by borrowers who attended one of the now defunct for-profit Corinthian Colleges.But those borrowers who aren't eligible for the automatic discharge are still waiting to hear the verdict on their claim. They typically are required to show that the school misled them, by presenting them with inflated job placement rates, for example."We are not aware that any more claims have been processed," said Adam Pulver, an attorney at the advocacy group Public Citizen, which has brought a case against the department over the delay of the rule.Neither of his clients have received an update on their pending claim for loan forgiveness, he said.The department took a step toward fully implementing the Borrower Defense rule earlier this month when it issued guidance to schools about how the rule -- which also bans colleges from requiring students to sign mandatory arbitration agreements -- would be implemented.DeVos, who's been criticized for siding with for-profit colleges, pressed pause on processing the claims after a group representing for-profit colleges in California sued the agency seeking to block it from taking effect.Democratic attorneys general from 18 states and Washington, DC, sued the department over the delay in 2017, tying the rule up in court for more than a year. In September, the judge ruled in favor of the states, calling the department's delay "arbitrary and capricious," and ordered immediate implementation of the rule in October. DeVos has called the rule "bad policy" and has directed the department to rewrite it. The agency has proposed offering partial loan forgiveness for qualifying students, based on the income of their peers who attended similar programs at other colleges.Abby Shafroth, an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, said she is worried a new rule could retroactively change the process for seeking relief."I have a number of clients who have been waiting since 2016 to hear about their application -- and still nothing from the department, no time line. It can feel like those applications were sent into a black hole," Shafroth said. 4275

Justin Bieber supports President Donald Trump's decision to help rapper A$AP Rocky, who is currently in the custody of Swedish police. But the "What Do You Mean" singer thinks others could benefit from the President's attention, too.Bieber said on Twitter late Friday he appreciated the President lobbying Swedish authorities on behalf of the rapper. Earlier Trump had said his administration was working to resolve the matter."I want my friend out," 463

INDIANAPOLIS — If you're one of the millions of people struggling to pay back your student loans, you know there's no easy solution. At least, not by yourself. But a crowdfunding app called Givling has pulled together hundreds of thousands of people across the country. Their ultimate goal? To be able to pay off a student loan every single day. While they aren't quite there yet, Givling has grown significantly over the past year, and they've given out more than .5 million in loan and mortgage help to people across the country. One person Givling has helped is Indiana University graduate Erin Smith, who says one big win on the app enabled her to put a down payment on a home for her and her little girl. "I first heard about Givling on the news, when one of the first loan payoffs was a guy in Indy a couple of years ago," Smith said. That Hoosier winner she is referring to is Jordan Shelton. He won ,407 in July 2017 to pay off his student loans. Shelton was just the second person to have his loans paid off by the crowdfunding app, which has now funded more than 35 loans and paid out thousands of dollars in trivia and random prizes."I downloaded it and began playing, participating at that time," Smith said. "My main goal was to get into the funding spot someday. I have a decent amount of student loan debt, that seems a bit overwhelming."And that's still a goal for Smith, but while she works her way up the queue toward the winner's circle, playing Givling proved to be more than just a chance at student loan relief — it helped her start her new life with her 3-year-old daughter. "I never thought of winning via trivia because I wasn't very good," Smith said. "I watched as Givling was growing, gaining more momentum, then started telling everyone who would listen about it. Most people wrote me off or called it a scam, but I got a few people to sign up. In October of last year, I was at work telling people about Givling and playing my free plays on my break. That's when I noticed I was on a team with high scores. My score was only 360, and the other two players each had a score of 10,250. That put us in first place for that week's trivia."That score was enough to win Smith and her two randomly paired trivia teammates a cool ,391 each. With the money she won from playing trivia on Givling, Smith was able to close on her first home last month. "I received a check a few weeks later," the mother said. "At the time I had been saving up for a down payment to buy a house," Smith said. I'm a single mom ... My No. 1 goal was to get us a home of our own. The money I won went toward that goal."I still play daily and still have hope of getting into the funding spot or random draw to have my student loans paid off. I love Givling and love what they do."Smith isn't alone, Hoosiers from Avon, Indianapolis, Frankfort, Lafayette and South Bend are just some of the thousands of winners who have won cash prizes and paid off all or some of their student loans by playing trivia on their phone. Givling has paid out more than .5 million to users since it started in 2015. The app isn't like most online games with big prizes. Each player gets two free games per day. Users have the option to purchase "coins" to play extra trivia games, but you don't need to buy anything to win. "I started playing Givling about a year and a half ago," Purdue University graduate Amanda Jeffries said. "I saw a few posts on Facebook from an old high school classmate and looked into it and decided to join. I didn't play a lot at the beginning, but then I started to play daily."For each ,000 loan that's paid off, Givling also chooses two random winners who each get ,000. That money can either go toward your student loans or your mortgage. Jeffries isn't at the top of the queue to get her loan funded and she didn't win at trivia, but she did win that ,000 just for being a Givling member and playing her free plays each day. She found out she had won after receiving a surprise phone call. "I was very excited to get the call," Jeffries said. "I ignored the first call since I didn't know the number and I was at work. They called right back, so I answered that time."Jeffries chose to put that ,000 toward her student loan debt, which she says is a lot more manageable and a lot less daunting now, thanks to Givling. "It helped bring my loan balance to just over ,000. So obviously, not having to worry much about that loan is wonderful," Jeffries said. "We're going to pay the rest of mine off quickly, then focus on my husband's loans."That's the premise of Givling; the startup has dedicated itself to stamping out student loan debt one student at a time. Givling is funded through partnerships, ads, games and "coin" purchases made by members. Those coins can be used to play more than the two free trivia games you get each day. The app has nearly 400,000 registered users, which may seem a little daunting if you're just jumping in. But Seth Beard, chief marketing officer for the company, says the queue is only one part of what they do. "We encourage new users to focus on the big weekly trivia cash prizes as well as the ,000 random drawing," Beard said. "The queue is not a sprint, rather a marathon, and will take time to climb. While the trivia cash prizes and random drawings are more frequent and someone who joins today can, essentially, take advantage of those right away."Just this week, Givling awarded more than ,000 in trivia prizes, completed funding on a ,000 student loan and awarded a ,000 prize for the random drawing. "As we continue to grow, we'll expand the prizes. There will be more frequent random ,000 drawings, and we may have two or three trivia cash payout periods through the week instead of just one. Therefore, more prizes for new users," Beard said. "Plus, the past two weeks have had trivia winners with a score of just 10 points, or one question right. You never know how the computer will pair the team since it's all random."For more information visit the 6092

Kevin Spacey's sex abuse case returned to a Massachusetts court Monday as his defense team worked to obtain cellphone records and other evidence from the actor's accuser.The hearing, which Spacey did not attend, focused largely on procedural issues with the discovery of records in the case. Spacey's defense is seeking credit card records, employment records and bookkeeping records from The Club Car, the Nantucket bar and restaurant. Spacey, 59, is accused of groping a busboy on a July 2016 evening at the bar.The busboy, 18 at the time of the alleged assault, came forward to report Spacey more than a year later, telling police he did not want Spacey to victimize others, according to a criminal complaint. CNN does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault.A judge previously ruled that Spacey, who has 827

JACKSON, Miss. — Days and days of heavy rain have forced authorities managing dams in Mississippi and Tennessee to release more water, worsening the flooding for people living downstream. Dramatic video posted by a Tennessee fire department showed the impact: Two houses tumbled down a bluff over the Tennessee River, while many others have been swamped to their rooftops. Entire neighborhoods have disappeared in muddy water below the Tennessee Valley Authority's Pickwick Reservoir. In Mississippi, people in and around the capital of Jackson are bracing for more flooding as the rain-swollen Pearl River is expected to crest on Monday. 651