Borrowers who qualify for Total and Permanent Disability Discharge will see some changes in 2025, impacting how they track their progress to forgiveness.
The Department of Education announced that as part of the new Unified Servicing and Data Solution loan servicing environment, designed to improve the borrower experience and repayment outcomes for approximately 38 million federal student loan borrowers, the Total and Permanent Disability Discharge (TPD) Program will also see changes in early 2025.
The TPD program will no longer be managed through a designated servicer and instead will be managed through StudentAid.gov. This will allow borrowers to use StudentAid.gov to submit TPD forms and track their progress to forgiveness.
Impacts to TPD processing started December 20, 2024, and will continue until the full transition is complete in early March 2025. During the upcoming months, FSA will provide more information to borrowers and loan holders on the transition.
The Electronic Announcements includes some key dates, and processing impacts for loan holders that started December 20, 2024.
