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There is also a program for public-service employees like teachers that forgives any remaining balance after 10 years.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

In their final exchange, Serena apologizes for what she’s done and June forgives her.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

There's something magnanimous about the way Bon forgives his friend without condition, or because he knows that what they've gone through forces people to say things and think things when they know better.

From Salon • May 27, 2024

The group targets the debt of people with low incomes or financial hardships and then forgives the amounts.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2024

And it struck me, too, that no one 'Curtis Bok, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, speech at Radcliffe College Commencement, 1960. there forgets, no one there forgives.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin