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A better way to get government loans for college started on July 1. Rather than banks, now the Department of Education handles federally guaranteed student loans. The change was part of the health care reform bill passed in March that had bank lobbyists kicking and screaming. The government ended billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies by removing banks as the middleman for federally guaranteed loans.

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