The Education Department has drafted a plan that will make it more difficult for defrauded students to receive loan forgiveness.

The proposed plan, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, would require former students to show “clear and convincing” evidence that their colleges had an “intent to deceive” them by distributing false information when recruiting.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Elizabeth (Betsy) Dee DeVosFormer DeVos chief of staff joins anti-Trump group Ex-Pence aide throws support behind Biden, citing Trump's virus response OVERNIGHT ENERGY: House Democrats tee up vote on climate-focused energy bill next week | EPA reappoints controversial leader to air quality advisory committee | Coronavirus creates delay in Pentagon research for alternative to 'forever chemicals' MORE has tried to crack down on the Obama-era policy that provide full loan forgiveness to defrauded students, arguing that it unfairly hurt universities and taxpayers who would have to shoulder the costs of reimbursement.

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The rule had not yet gone into effect when DeVos delayed it over the summer and announced that her department would draft a new plan.

DeVos’s plan will also only give students partial loan forgiveness based on their income and will reduce the amount of time that students have to file claims to three years.

The new plan also nixes an Obama-era policy that allowed state attorneys general to file claims on behalf of groups of students who claim they were defrauded by the same school.

Critics of the plan told the Journal that the proposed policy of making students provide evidence of intent is a threshold that many will not be able to meet.

Last year, a federal judge ordered Trump to pay $25 million in a lawsuit brought by former students of Trump University, who said the school was an expensive fraud that offered no real educational value.