The government’s student loan sites are crashing after debt relief announcement

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The government's financial aid website crashed after the announcement of a federal student loan forgiveness program. People are having issues logging into StudentAid.gov or even getting the site to load at all, according to reports on the internet.

Those with a personal income over $125,000 aren't eligible for forgiveness, and people who received grants will have more debt canceled than people who didn't The complexity has left a lot of people confused and looking for a way to check their eligibility, which has not bode well for the government's student loan websites.

Thankfully, another announcement from the White House makes student loans less of an immediate problem; the pause on payments has been extended through December 31st, 2022.

The government isn't the only one dealing with a surge of traffic after the news.

The Department of Education has an explainer about the program that will give you more information in the coming weeks.

Jim Bradshaw, the Department of Education's spokesman, said that the site was working for him but the department was looking into the reports. There are reports of the site not functioning on social media.