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- Cost Estimate
As cleared by the Congress on December 21, 2020
- Report
CBO periodically issues a compendium of policy options and their effects on the federal budget. This document provides estimates of the budgetary savings from 83 options that would decrease federal spending or increase federal revenues.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on December 10, 2019
- Report
Between 1995 and 2017, the balance of outstanding federal student loan debt increased from $187 billion to $1.4 trillion (in 2017 dollars). CBO examines factors that contributed to that growth, including changes to student loan policies and how they affected borrowing and repayment.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and Labor on September 24, 2020
- Report
When analyzing proposals and programs whose costs depend on whether or not some uncertain variable reaches a specified trigger level, CBO considers a range of possible outcomes and their associated probabilities.
- Report
CBO projects a federal budget deficit of $3.3 trillion in 2020, more than triple the shortfall recorded in 2019, mostly because of the economic disruption caused by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic and the enactment of legislation in response.
- Cost Estimate
As posted on the House Rules Committee website (Rules Committee Print 116-58 https://rules.house.gov/bill/116/hr-7027)
- Cost Estimate
As posted on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions website
- Working Paper
Learn how CBO projects the budgetary cost of student loans repaid through income-driven plans. This working paper provides information on the characteristics of borrowers in those plans and on the methods used to project borrowers’ earnings, repayment, and resulting forgiveness.