Student advocates have for years complained about the complex set of options borrowers must navigate to repay their student loans. Student loan borrowers are faced with a dizzying nine repayment plans based on their income, in addition to a standard 10-year loan-repayment plan.
There's a growing consensus that Congress should reduce those options to one income-based option on top of the standard plan.
Senator Lamar Alexander, the chairman of the Senate education committee,...