Improving Income Driven Repayment for the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program and the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program; Correction

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Education 34 CFR Part 685 [Docket ID ED-2023-OPE-0004] RIN 1840-AD81 AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Correcting amendment. SUMMARY: On July 10, 2023, the Department of Education (Department) published in the Federal Register final regulations amending regulations related to income-driven repayment. ( printed page 107001) This document corrects a technical error in the regulations. This document does not contain any substantive changes to the regulations. DATES: Effective December 31, 2024. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bruce Honer, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 987-0750. Email: Bruce.Honer@ed.gov . If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 10, 2023, the Department published in the Federal Register a final rule amending regulations related to income-driven repayment ( 88 FR 43820 ). Those final regulations contained a technical error, which we are correcting. Specifically, with respect to 34 CFR 685.209(k)(6)(i) , we indicated in the preamble to the final rule in a response to public comment that we were modifying the regulations to exclude periods in which a borrower is in an in-school deferment from counting toward the borrower's time to forgiveness, and we explained our reasons for doing so, see, e.g., 88 FR 43855 ,…