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Negotiators press Education Department to clarify 'professional student' list; mental‑health programs urged for inclusion
Summary
Negotiators pushed the department to clarify the professional‑degree list and to confirm whether health‑profession loans (HEAL) and mental‑health licensure programs are covered by the new loan‑limit scheme; the department said the list is fixed for this rulemaking but may be addressed by future rulemaking and will confirm statutory authority.
Negotiators at the Department of Education pressed officials to clarify which programs qualify as "professional students" and whether health‑profession loan limits (often referred to historically as HEAL limits) fall under the same authority as other federal loan limits.
Tammy Abernathy, the department’s federal negotiator, told the room the department intends to mirror the existing regulatory reference (commonly cited as 668.2) and to retain a fixed list of programs for this negotiated rulemaking, while allowing "additional professional degrees" to be designated later by the secretary through a…
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