Their student loans were forgiven. Now they’re reclaiming life after decades of debt: ‘I’ve found dreams I never knew I had.’ Boston 25 News [Video]

This was no ordinary letter. For Israel Harris, 48, it marked the end of two decades haunted by a six-figure student loan debt with accruing interest.

“Congratulations! The Biden-Harris Administration has forgiven your federal student loan(s),” it read, making good on a promise by the White House to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt for qualified borrowers this year.

And just like that: Harris’s debt was wiped clean.

“You can’t know that it will happen until it does,” the New York City-based musician told Yahoo News. “And there’s still a part of me working on accepting it.”

Harris is one of the nearly 4.3 million Americans who’ve had their debts forgiven by the Biden administration. Almost $153 billion of canceled debts have been wiped clean since he took office, according to the Department of Education. Over 30 million borrowers are now eligible for debt relief through Biden’s newly released planto waive accrued and capitalized interest, cancel loans that are over 20 years old and assist borrowers dealing with …