President Biden has extended the pause on student-loan payments another 90 days, to May 1, 2022.   
The Education Department in a separate statement said the pause would allow the administration to assess the impact of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 on student borrowers. The repayment pause has helped 41 million borrowers save $5 billion a month, the department said. The pause had been scheduled to expire at the end of January.