LAKEPORT
Team Trivia Challenge fundraiser for LCSA April 27
The Lake County Symphony Association is hosting its First Annual Team Trivia Challenge fundraiser at 7 p.m. on April 27 at the Soper-Reese Theatre. Sign up now to be a part of a four-member team competing for the title of 2024 Trivia Challenge Champions. Quizmaster Mark Lipps from Ripe Choice Farm & Catering will be there to ask the tough questions and keep everyone on track.
The competition is limited to 20 teams and spots are expected to fill up fast. Each four-member team can consist of anyone– from co-workers to first-responder agencies, government offices, corporations/businesses, community-service, fraternal organizations, or groups of family or friends. The possibilities are endless. Each team will pay $200 to enter the contest; teams may ask sponsors to contribute to the entry fee. Sponsors will be publicly acknowledged.
If being in the audience is more your speed, just sit back and watch the action as it unfolds in suspenseful moments and hilarity. Enjoy some hors d’oeuvres. Have a glass of wine. Watchers will pay $20 to sit close to the stage or $15 to sit further back. Onlookers will also have a chance to participate by putting their names into a drawing; four random and willing audience members will become the “wildcard” team and join the competition for free!
The 2024 Champion Team will be invited back next year to defend their title at no charge! Set the date to come join the LCSA for an evening of fundraising and entertainment! Ticket information and additional details will be available on the Soper-Reese website.
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WASHINGTON
Biden-Harris administration approves additional $5.8 billion in student debt relief for 78,000 public service workers
The Biden-Harris Administration announced today the approval of $5.8 billion in additional student loan debt relief for 77,700 borrowers. These approvals are the result of fixes made by the Administration to Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF). Today’s announcement brings the total loan forgiveness approved by the Biden-Harris Administration to $143.6 billion for 3.96 million Americans. This action builds on President Biden and his Administration’s efforts to provide debt relief to as many borrowers as possible as quickly as possible.
“For too long, our nation’s teachers, nurses, social workers, firefighters, and other public servants faced logistical troubles and trap doors when they tried to access the debt relief they were entitled to under the law. With this announcement, the Biden-Harris Administration is showing how we’re taking further steps not only to fix those trap doors, but also to expand opportunity to many more Americans,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. “Today, more than 100 times more borrowers are eligible for PSLF than there were at the beginning of the Administration. The Biden Administration is turning a promise broken under our predecessor into a promise kept.”
The debt relief announced today includes borrowers who have benefitted from the Biden-Harris Administration’s limited PSLF waiver as well as regulatory improvements made to the program by the Administration. Total relief through PSLF is now $62.5 billion for 871,000 borrowers since October 2021. Prior to the Biden-Harris Administration’s fixes to PSLF, only about 7,000 borrowers had ever received forgiveness.
“The Biden-Harris Administration is proud to provide relief for another 77,700 borrowers who have given back to their communities through public service,” said U.S. Department of Education Under Secretary James Kvaal. “We hope this relief provides borrowers and their families some much needed breathing room.”
An additional nearly 380,000 borrowers who are within two years, or 24 qualifying payments, of receiving forgiveness under PSLF will also receive an email from President Biden starting next week thanking them for their service and notifying them that if they continue in their public service work, they will be eligible for forgiveness within that time frame: “The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program is an important way to bring more Americans into public service and help them get out from under the burden of student loan debt. But for too long, the program failed to live up to its commitments – and public service workers like you never got the relief you are entitled to under the law because of errors and administrative failures. I vowed to fix that, and I’m proud that my Administration has delivered on that promise,” the email from President Biden notes. “I hope you continue the important work of serving your community – and if you do, in less than two years you could get your remaining student loans forgiven through Public Service Loan Forgiveness,” the President adds.
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