Washington (CNN) The Education Department didn't grant a single claim for loan forgiveness to people who said they were defrauded by their colleges between June and December 2018, according to data sent to Congress and provided to CNN on Friday.

While Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told senators on Thursday that her department had restarted loan forgiveness to defrauded students, the data shows it did not immediately start doing so despite an October court order.

sent to Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray's office on Friday. More than 158,000 people are waiting to hear whether their debt will be canceled, according to the Education Department data , which wassent to Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray's office on Friday.

Many borrowers have been waiting for their claim to be processed for years as DeVos fought to block a rule known as Borrower Defense to Repayment from going into effect. It allows students to apply for debt cancellation if they were defrauded by their college -- but DeVos wants to rewrite it to ensure taxpayers aren't on the hook for students who weren't actually harmed by their schools.

The rule applies to students whose colleges made inaccurate claims or misled them about the success of their programs. It covers nursing students , for example, who found out after finishing their program that it didn't have the right accreditation -- keeping them from getting a job.

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