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, but we inadvertently omitted that change in the regulatory text. This notice corrects that inadvertent omission.
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