All federal student loans will have their interest rates cut to 0% for at least two months, and anyone who wants to can suspend their payments completely, the U.S. Department of Education announced March 20. Following up on plans announced a week earlier to waive student loan interest during the coronavirus pandemic, the department said in a statement all borrowers would also have access to two months or more of administrative forbearance, meaning their repayment would be paused, retroactively to March 13. “Right now, everyone should be focused on staying safe and healthy, not worrying about their student loan balance growing,” Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said in the statement.