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Our focus is to deliver a fast response (our goal is to answer every call within 20 seconds) to give your travelers an end-to-end personalized experience and help you create executive travel management that addresses the complex needs of high-frequency travelers.

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Our vip travel agents provide the highest level of personalized service to your senior-level executives.

You’ve worked hard to get where you are in your career, and when you travel you deserve the best of the best, not just in travel accommodations, but in customer service as well.

At Teplis Travel, we know that when a business traveler requires support, it must be delivered by a professional, highly skilled VIP travel agent who knows how to meet and exceed the needs of senior-level executives. In this fast paced world, time is a precious commodity and Executives need to maximize their time while traveling. Our VIP travel services are designed to reduce the time planning travel as well as reduce travel complications so every traveler has a seamless and efficient travel process.

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“Teplis Travel has always provided the answer/solution for me whether it be advice on negotiations, complex international ticketing or optimizing my Concur Travel and Expense solution. I am confident my corporate travel program is optimized to the fullest because of the support they provide.”

“Hands down, Teplis has the best team of any travel management company (TMC). They have world class travel agents, account team and OBT platform support. The knowledge that each vertical brings to the table is tough to beat.”

“We have some complex itineraries all over the world and Teplis does a great job of simplifying everything. Teplis travel agents are very knowledgeable and creative, especially when we are booking international fares.”

“Always an enjoyable and professional experience when working with the corporate agents at Teplis Travel. I love calling my favorite agent who knows exactly what I need when booking my business travel!”

“Our company is extremely pleased with the level of support our corporate travelers receive through Teplis’ online support desk. It is a huge benefit to have hands-on expertise available when our employees need assistance booking on Concur Travel.”

“You have exceeded expectations and set the bar at a new level for travel agents. You have been awesome! After my experiences with this weekend, all I can say is that you qualify for sainthood.”

Our skilled VIP travel agents take personal responsibility for each traveler’s requests, no matter how big or small. With our 24/7 service and dedicated VIP travel agents, your senior-level employees and road warriors will gain extra personalized attention for every trip. Take the stress and pressure off your in-house travel manager and put it on the experts at Teplis Travel. We can handle it.

Our VIP Services for Executive Travelers

Our team consists of experienced travelers just like you so often we know what you’ll need before you need it. We have structured our personalized, high touch services to give VIP travelers outstanding service throughout the trip by anticipating their needs, being accessible at all hours, and accommodating perks and requests. Our expert travel coordinators work closely with each client to understand their preferences, schedule, and budget to create a custom itinerary that meets their exact needs. From booking flight tickets and accommodations to arranging ground transportation and making restaurant reservations, we handle every aspect of their business travel arrangements with the utmost care and attention to detail.

Our wide range of VIP travel services include but are not limited to:

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24/7/365 Flight Monitoring and Automated Updates

Membership and Loyalty Program Confirmation

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Air, Car, and Hotel Upgrades

• Personalized, high-touch service for professional and personal travel requirements
• Dedicated phone numbers and call prioritization to ensure your VIP travelers have a direct connection to their preferred VIP travel agent
• Aircraft Coordination for private charter flights around the world
• Outbound calls for travel related requests including waitlist and sold out properties
• 24/7/365 Flight Monitoring and automated travel alerts to ensure a seamless travel experience
• Membership & loyalty program confirmation for frequent flyer points and rewards
• After Hours VIP Service (available worldwide) to guarantee the high-touch service no matter what time of day a traveler needs support
• Air, Car, and Hotel Upgrades (when available)
• Passport & Visa Coordination for international travel opportunities
• Other Special requests such as: dining reservations, pet travel, and more

Why Teplis?

For over 50 years, our team at Teplis Travel has provided our clients with exceptional service through our extensive list of high-end services. These services ensure an extra level of care for every stage of a VIP Executive traveler’s business trip. From the moment you inquire about a booking to when you arrive back home after the trip, you can count on Teplis Travel to be there for you every step of the way. Our unparalleled service means you and all other Executive travelers receive every comfort and convenience you need while on the road.

We are an Atlanta-based and Certified Women-owned travel agency that is equipped and excited to help your Executive travelers with their business travel plans. Learn more about our VIP Travel Services or any of our other services including Corporate Travel Management and Consulting. We are happy to assist small & medium enterprises (SMEs) with any corporate or leisure travel request. Contact us through the form below or give our team a call today!

For over 50 years, our team at Teplis Travel has provided our clients with exceptional service through our extensive list of high-end services. These services ensure an extra level of care for every stage of a VIP traveler’s business trip. From the moment you inquire about a booking to when you arrive back home after the trip, you can count on Teplis Travel to be there for you every step of the way. Our unparalleled service means you and all other Executive travelers receive every comfort and convenience you need while on the road.

We are an Atlanta based and Certified Women owned travel agency that is equipped and excited to help your Executive travelers with their business travel plans. Learn more about our VIP Travel Services or any of our other services including Corporate Travel Management and Consulting. We are happy to assist small & medium enterprises (SME) with any corporate or leisure travel request. Contact us through the form below or give our team a call today!

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Encore's superior service is curated for two distinct types of travelers.

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At Encore Corporate Travel, we don’t do “ standard service ”, and neither should you. When you reach out to an agent, you’re not talking to a call center.

Need that extra touch? Encore’s VIP travel service gives executives and road warriors access to a dedicated VIP phone line and email , and agents with a minimum of 20 years’ experience booking travel.

We’ll go above and beyond to get you upgrades and extras with our VIP Pre-Check process, where our team contacts all vendors 24 hours before departure to make sure everything is just right for your most valued travelers.

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How to Plan & Manage VIP Travel

Blog | July 1, 2022

Managing your own travel plans is challenging enough. Between the heavy airport traffic, flight delays, and the task of navigating a new city, there’s a lot of room for error and frustration.

Now, imagine coordinating the travel logistics for a big corporate executive. The responsibility of managing someone else’s schedule—all from a distant location—sounds like you won’t be getting a lot of sleep during the trip.

If you’ve already managed this important task before, then you know it requires constant monitoring and is often paired with a nagging feeling that something—at any movement—could go wrong. 

VIP Travel Tips

At Executive Transportation , we’ve helped business professionals and corporate leaders get to their next destination on schedule and with more ease. In addition, we’ve worked with many individuals, responsible for coordinating VIP travel , manage all the intricate details of ground transportation. 

Before we tell you how our ground transportation services work, we first wanted to share a few tips on how to coordinate VIP travel to ensure both you, and the executive you’re assisting, enjoy a stress-free experience, from start to finish. 

This may sound obvious at first, but the sooner you begin gathering information about your guest and coordinating the various details of the trip, the less obstacles you may encounter later. 

For instance, if your guest is visiting your corporate headquarters, or you’re scheduling out-of-state travel for one of your vice presidents, be sure to check the destination for any upcoming events (such as a major sports event, musical festivals, or conferences). These events could make booking a flight or reserving a hotel room in the area more difficult due to limited capacity. 

Stay Connected

Make sure you have already selected a preferred channel for you and your guest(s) to communicate. For instance, if you’re sending travel details to your guests via email, phone, AND text, be sure to ask them for their preferred method of correspondence prior to the trip—and use this as the main touch point.

This way, you won’t need to worry about checking multiple platforms to stay connected or to alert your guests of last-minute changes in the schedule.

Have a Contingency Plan

The truth is even planning early won’t guarantee a smooth trip. Flights get delayed or are canceled entirely. Even worse, your guest’s flight gets delayed so long that he or she misses a connecting flight at the next airport and ends up spending the night in a different location. 

The good news is this person has you working behind the scenes to ease the burden of travel changes. Therefore, if your guest has a connecting flight, try to familiarize yourself with the airport and its surrounding areas in case you do need to book a new connecting flight, or you need to reserve a hotel room for the night. You can also check additional flights while your guest waits at the airport to find another departure time, or airline, if needed. 

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This last piece of advice will help you coordinate the details, stay connected, and ensure that a backup plan is always in place, should travel plans change.

At Executive Transportation , we’ll help you plan and manage the ground travel details for all your VIP guests. From setting your executive up with a luxury vehicle and professional chauffeur to providing safe, reliable travel to and from the airport—and everywhere in between—you can trust us to keep travel on schedule, no matter what.

In addition to providing a first-class experience to your guest(s), we’ll also keep you informed with alerts and updates, so you can relax knowing your guests are on route to their next destination. And if a flight is delayed or gets canceled, we’ll adjust accordingly to ensure your guests have a ride waiting for them the moment they land. 

It’s a peace of mind we offer and one you deserve!  To get started with planning VIP travel , contact us  so we can help you coordinate all the details. 

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7 Ways To Manage VIP Travel For A Smooth Experience

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VIPs are high-profile executives having strategic significance in an organization or board members like Vice Presidents, Executive Managing Directors, Managing Directors, or chairpersons. Managing VIP travel is an honor and a challenge. Travel managers can have sleepless nights planning and executing VIP trip because of the high stakes. They deserve a high-touch service and a picture-perfect travel experience throughout the journey.

What is VIP travel?

VIP travel management requires impeccable planning with room for flexibility as VIPs have tight schedules, but their plans can change unexpectedly. Corporate travel managers looking after VIP trip are accountable for handling all travel requirements and logistics. These may involve air travel, ground transportation, private lounges at airports, chauffeured services, and room upgrades. VIPs travel to meet business-critical objectives. Their meeting schedule or event participation is of critical importance to the organization.

Travel managers must ensure that nothing goes wrong with proactive planning to make room for last-minute changes. They must know the personal preferences of the VIP traveler and incorporate these into the travel plan.

7 tips to manage VIP travel

The following tips may help travel managers and TMCs simplify VIP travel with no stress.

1. Leverage an automated travel management platform

You can save time and effort using a SaaS-based travel management tool like Paxes for business travel booking. It allows access to a vast inventory of suppliers and enables instant search to find the right option. Further, corporate travelers can find the flights and hotels that fall under travel policy of the organization and save highly on their next booking.

2. Budget considerations

Budget restrictions are crucial while planning a VIP business trip. These trips can surpass the budget because of the premium travel and accommodation choices. Hence, one must understand if the VIP aims at saving on costs or prefers a luxurious travel experience. However, there are many travel management companies that help in finding a balance between the two variables.

3. Understand the travel preferences and schedule

The individual preferences include flight seating, accommodation, plans before and after the business meeting, and other priorities. Know the minutest details of their travel plans before preparing an itinerary. These should include arrival time at the destination airport, airport transfer, meeting schedule, and return travel. Find out if the individual VIP has plans for leisure to make the arrangements.

4. Accommodating last-minute changes

Being proactive pays as business travel is prone to unpleasant surprises and last-minute changes. Quickly responding to the VIP for help from the office may be difficult after office hours. An automated travel management platform ensures seamless support through the app. The VIP can instantly contact the human assistants or use other modes, including chat, email, or phone.

5. Check the local conditions

Knowing the local conditions like weather, political situation, and social environment helps you create a Plan B. Online travel management platforms facilitate real-time alerts and access to emergency services. Understanding the weather will help travel managers recommend clothing and footwear to the VIP executive. Further, real time tracking helps in providing necessary aid in case of emergency for maintaining the safety of VIP travelers.

6. Book local transport in advance

One should facilitate local travel at the destination by pre-booking transport and provide assisting services to save precious time for the VIP executive. It will ensure a better traveling experience, as VIPs need to focus on business objectives within a tight schedule. Corporates should remain vigilant while booking VIP local transport as delay in any schedule will greatly affect the overall experience.

7. Instant travel updates

VIP business travelers must receive instant updates regarding changes in flight schedules, including delays and cancellations. An automated app-based travel management solution delivers real-time modifications to help VIP travelers change plans. Further, these changes should remain effortless to make the overall experience better for the VIP travelers.

Advantages of VIP business travel

• Luxury amenities and services enhances the overall productivity
• VIP travel offer exclusive services and personalized travel options
• It greatly reduces the travel stress and fatigue
• VIP travel offers access to a wide networking opportunity and enhance the overall brand image

Suggested Read: All You Need To Know About Corporate Travel Management

Key services and amenities offered in VIP business travel packages

• Dedicated travel concierge
• Priority check-in and boarding
• Exclusive airport lounge access
• Premium transportation and luxury accommodations
• Fine dining experiences and personalized itineraries
• Dedicated security and assistance with 24/7 support

VIP travel is a business-critical activity mandating granular-level planning to ensure nothing goes wrong. Travel managers and TMCs must focus on improving the travel experience for the VIP traveler by working within the budget.

Harnessing SaaS-based travel management platforms like Paxes improves booking efficiency and facilitates round-the-clock support for smooth business travel. It enables access to a broad spectrum of travel accommodation options.

Travel managers and TMCs can choose from multiple perks, like a gym, room location, round-the-clock room services, on-site co-working facility, and overnight laundry service. Paxes enables app support to facilitate VIP access to the travel itinerary and other services on the go.

Suggested Read: How Do Travel Management Apps Assist Corporates And Agencies

VIP Travel FAQs

Who else may accompany vips on business trips.

Usually, an executive assistant or a personal secretary travels with the VIP during the business trip in a corporate setup.

Is there a unique position for VIP trip management in a corporate organization?

A VIP Corporate Travel Specialist plans and executes VIP trip by incorporating the individual needs and preferences of VIP executives. The position looks after travel logistics by addressing travel requirements for ground and air transportation and accommodation booking.

Are there any special services for the VIPs?

Meet and greet, chauffeur-driven local transportation and airport transfers, local translator, tickets to local events, and booking golf slots are a few specialized services for corporate VIP travelers.

Why is trip monitoring crucial for VIP travelers?

Business travel by VIP executives is highly essential. One cannot afford to miss the high-profile events and meetings in the destination city. Flawless planning and continuous monitoring help travel managers ensure a smooth journey from departure until return to corporate headquarters.

What special services are available for VIP travelers if there is a layover?

Travel managers and TMCs should arrange for premium lounge access during layovers providing private sleeping facilities, quality food services, showers, and concierge facilities.

How VIP travel is different from regular business travel?

VIP travel has numerous benefits over regular business trip at an added cost such as enhanced accommodations and flight tickets, access to exclusive lounges, and priority services.

How can VIP business travel enhance productivity and efficiency during business trips?

With state of the art accommodation, services and transport, the productivity is increased during VIP travel.

Are there any additional costs or fees associated with VIP business travel that clients should be aware of?

Yes, booking luxury travel and providing access to premium services may cost extra along with the regular travel cost.

Pratyush is a traveling enthusiast who always looks for innovations in business travel management. He has 5 years of experience writing content on corporate travel management and working closely with expert business travel facilitators.

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Touring the Top 10 Moscow Metro Stations

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Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

Moscow subways are very clean

To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow.   Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station  is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station  was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

Mayakovskaya station

One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Have you visited the Moscow Metro? Leave your comment below.

January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am

An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

December 6, 2017 at 10:45 pm

Hi, do you remember which tour company you contacted for this tour?

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Immigration has often been a topic that sparks strong emotions around the globe, and it is an especially hot topic this election season, particularly when you have a U.S. presidential candidate characterizing undocumented immigrants not as “human” but rather as “animals” and using phrases such as “they are poisoning the blood of our country” at campaign rallies. Now seems to be a perfect time for a powerful new film, The Absence of Eden , to perhaps help lower the temperature and show the human side of those trying to cross the border into a new and hopefully better life.

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The Absence of Eden is set at the U.S.-Mexico border and actually deals with an undocumented immigrant named Esmee (Saldaña), working as a private dancer who finds herself in deep trouble after killing a drug cartel member in the club where she works and who had tried to rape her. This leads to her getting involved with a shady coyote providing travel across the border for immigrants unable to flee any other way. When she meets a mother travelling with her daughter things get worse as their caravan is stopped and the daughter, Alma (Maeve Garay), is separated from her mother who pleads with Esmee to take care of her as the desperate woman is carted away by cartel members. Esmee promises she will make sure they are reunited in America.

A parallel story deals with a morally conflicted ICE agent, Shipp ( Garrett Hedlund ), who clearly has issues with the demands of his job and is also, as it turns out, romantically involved with Yadira ( Adria Arjona ), who is living a life near the border but perhaps hiding a secret of her own. Their relationship plays out as he goes about a daily life that exposes the inhumanity involved, even as his partner, Dobbins (Chris Coy), has another view of things as he looks at these people with far less compassion.

While the film packs plenty of action and moves swiftly, the emphasis here is on humanity, and showing that these people caught up in harrowing circumstances are people just like us; Perego is clearly dedicated to never letting the focus change from that. He is helped greatly by a terrific cast including Saldaña who brings grace and grit to Esmee. Also impressive is Arjona, who skillfully plays the contradictions of a character who slowly reveals herself. Hedlund, morose for much of the film, is also very fine as a man uncomfortable with his job and himself.

The film is in fact dedicated to Saldaña’s late maternal grandmother, who immigrated from the Dominican Republic in the 1960s.

Producers are Julie Yorn, Perego, Robert Kravis, Karl Herrmann and Alexandra Milchan. Roadside Attractions and Vertical Entertainment have teamed up on the release.

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Radiators fail once more: Moscow suburbs residents appeal to Putin

R esidents across the Moscow suburbs are besieged by a heating problem, for which they plead direct intervention from President Vladimir Putin. These individuals have yet to experience any semblance of home heating since winter started due to a dwindling supply of heating oil. The issue, one largely avoided by local authority communication, has left residents desperate to the point of directly appealing to the president.

While plots have been uncovered to disrupt Ukraine's infrastructure for a second consecutive winter, thus depriving civilians of heating, it seems Russians are now mired in their crisis. Irony drips from the fact that those under Putin's leadership are looking to cause turmoil in Ukraine, yet at home, they face a similar predicament.

Many dwellings within the Moscow agglomeration are presently without heat. The capital's residents are desperate, directly appealing to President Putin due to a perceived lack of alternate avenues for assistance. The absence of suitable heating functionality since winter commenced pushes them towards desperation with no relief in sight.

This seems improbable, but in Russia, it appears that anything can happen.

It remains uncertain if Vladimir Putin is actively addressing the heating crisis. Some experts suggest that Russia's heating oil reserves are depleting, which negatively affects residents' quality of life. Plagued by cold radiators and plummeting winter temperatures, these citizens have directly addressed their pleas to their head of state.

This heating crisis is happening in Elektrostal, a town approximately 71 miles from Moscow.

Ironically, Russia has constantly aimed to destroy the Ukrainian infrastructure since war broke out, deliberately trying to leave Ukrainians without heating during the harsh winters, aiming to break their strong will. It's an irony they now struggle with a domestic heating crisis, particularly near Moscow, their largest and most pivotal city.

Desperate individuals are reaching out to Vladimir Putin. They question his knowledge of the heating infrastructure conditions in the Moscow suburbs and the dire situations residents face there. Sundown brings no relief from the harsh Russian winter and without heating, their houses turn cold. With elections nearing, more and more residents find themselves reaching out directly to their president.

"Since winter's start, we've been without heating. This has been a yearly occurrence for the past three years. Despite paying for heating, we don't have enough. We implore you, help us!" - these are the desperate pleas from the heavily dressed populace dealing with the Russian winter conditions.

Experts attribute the heating oil shortage to international sanctions and surging demands for diesel fuel, pivotal to military operations. Russia now grapples with a dearth of raw materials essential for boiler and heating plant operation. As supplies dwindle, houses grow cold with little hope of any immediate corrective intervention.

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Biden is canceling $7.4 billion in student debt for 277,000 borrowers. Here's who is eligible.

By Aimee Picchi

Edited By Alain Sherter

Updated on: April 12, 2024 / 3:29 PM EDT / CBS News

The Biden administration on Friday said it's canceling $7.4 billion in student debt for 277,000 borrowers, with the recipients scheduled to receive emails today to alert them to their loan discharges. 

The latest effort extends the debt relief provider under President Joe Biden after the Supreme Court last year blocked  his administration's plan for broad-based student loan forgiveness. With the latest batch of loan cancellations, the White House said it has forgiven about $153 billion in debt for 4.3 million student borrowers. 

Biden, who had made student loan relief a major campaign pledge, is tackling an issue that affects about 43 million Americans with a combined  $1.7 trillion in student debt. It's a burden that some borrowers and their advocates say has harmed their ability to save for a home or achieve financial milestones, an issue that was echoed by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in a conference call with reporters. 

"I talked to a teacher in New York this week who took out a loan for $30,000," Cardona said Friday, "and after over a decade of paying and being a teacher the debt was $60,000, and she was saying that the interest was so high that the payments that she was making wasn't even touching her principal."

He added, "We are fixing a broken system. We're relentless and taking steps to transform a broken system into one that works people across the country."

Here's what to know about who is eligible for the latest round of forgiveness.

Who qualifies for the student loan forgiveness?

Three groups of people qualify under the latest round of debt relief, the White House said. 

• $3.6 billion for 206,800 borrowers enrolled in the SAVE plan.

About $3.6 billion will be forgiven for nearly 207,000 borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, an income-driven repayment program, or IDR, that the Biden administration created last year. 

The White House said borrowers who are getting their debt discharged under SAVE had taken out smaller loans for their college studies. The plan allows people to receive forgiveness after they made at least 10 years of payments if they originally took out $12,000 or less in loans to pay for college; borrowers with larger loans are eligible after 20 or 25 years of repayment, depending on what types of loans they have. 

 "You sacrifice and you've saved for a decade or more to make your student loan payments, and you originally borrowed $12,000 or less, you're going to see relief," Cardona told reporters. "An overwhelming number of those who qualify for SAVE were eligible for Pell grants and come from low- and middle-income communities."

• $3.5 billion for 65,700 borrowers in income-repayment plans.

These borrowers will receive forgiveness through "administrative adjustments" to repayment plans where loan servicers had made it tougher for some borrowers to qualify for relief.  

"These are people who paid for a long time but were being deprived of relief because of administrative and servicing failures," Cardona said. "These people met the contract of their loan" and will receive forgiveness.

• $300 million for 4,600 borrowers through Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).  

The PSLF program is designed to help public servants like teachers and government employees achieve debt forgiveness after 10 years of repayment. It's a program that started in 2007 but had been plagued with complex rules that effectively hampered people from getting their debt discharged, with only 7,000 receiving loan forgiveness prior to the Biden administration. 

With the latest round of discharges, the Biden administration has forgiven $62.8 billion in loans for 876,000 borrowers through PSLF. 

Are there legal challenges to Biden's debt forgiveness plans?

In two separate lawsuits, Republican attorneys general in 18 states are pushing to have the SAVE plan tossed and to halt any further student debt cancellation. They say the SAVE plan oversteps Biden's authority and makes it harder for states to recruit employees. They also contend the plan undermines a separate cancellation program that encourages careers in public service.

It's unclear what the suits could mean for loans that have already been canceled. A court document filed by Kansas' attorney general says it's "unrealistic to think that any loan forgiveness that occurs during this litigation will ever be clawed back."

—With reporting by the Associated Press.

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Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets including USA Today and Consumer Reports.

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