--- title: Hillary Clinton Proposing 3-Month Student Loan Payment Halt description: Hillary Clinton is expected to announce the proposal Wednesday at a speech in Atlantic City, New Jersey canonical: https://time.com/4394548/hillary-clinton-3-month-halt-student-loans-debt/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-06T13:36:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:58.631Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Will Propose a 3-Month Halt on Student Loan Payments og:description: It would give those in debt time to refinance og:url: https://time.com/4394548/hillary-clinton-3-month-halt-student-loans-debt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94b978895a44e72/69889aa9bc6cfcbd043ddacb/hillary-clinton-obama-rally.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton Addresses Nat'l Education Association Representative Assembly og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Will Propose a 3-Month Halt on Student Loan Payments twitter:description: It would give those in debt time to refinance twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94b978895a44e72/69889aa9bc6cfcbd043ddacb/hillary-clinton-obama-rally.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Will Propose a 3-Month Halt on Student Loan Payments > Sponsored content. 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Alex Wong/Getty Images by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jul 6, 2016 1:36 PM UTC Hillary Clinton is [will propose](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/05/clinton-to-propose-3-month-hiatus-for-repayment-of-student-loans/) a three-month halt on federal student loan repayments in order to allow debtors to restructure their debt. Clinton will announce her plans Wednesday, according to a preview obtained by the Washington _Post_, while she campaigns in Atlantic City, N.J. — the site of a casino worker protest. Under the proposal, student borrowers would be able to defer loan payments for three months, which could cost the federal government some $1 billion dollars in lost interest, according to the _Post_. Clinton [addressed the student debt problem](http://time.com/4386796/hillary-clinton-student-debt-entrepreneurship/) Tuesday at teacher’s union convention. “I want everyone to be able to refinance your student loans so you never have to pay more than you can afford and for people who go into public service, and I include teaching because it is the first and primary public service,” Clinton said Tuesday at the National Education Association meeting in Washington. “Any remaining debt after you refinance will be forgiven after 10 years.” During the Democratic primary, her opponent Bernie Sanders [proposed offering free tuition](http://time.com/4299321/millennials-bernie-sanders/) at public colleges and universities, but Clinton dismissed the idea as impossible, instead focusing on student debt, which she believes achievable. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4394548/hillary-clinton-3-month-halt-student-loans-debt/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4394548/hillary-clinton-3-month-halt-student-loans-debt/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Will Propose a 3-Month Halt on Student Loan Payments","datePublished":"2016-07-06T13:36:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:58.631Z","description":"It would give those in debt time to refinance","url":"https://time.com/4394548/hillary-clinton-3-month-halt-student-loans-debt/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","student debt"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94b978895a44e72/69889aa9bc6cfcbd043ddacb/hillary-clinton-obama-rally.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94b978895a44e72/69889aa9bc6cfcbd043ddacb/hillary-clinton-obama-rally.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton Addresses Nat'l Education Association Representative Assembly","caption":"Hillary Clinton Addresses Nat'l Education Association Representative Assembly","creditText":"Alex Wong/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4394548/hillary-clinton-3-month-halt-student-loans-debt/","name":"Hillary Clinton Will Propose a 3-Month Halt on Student Loan Payments"}}]}] ```