BC revamps student loan respite with innovative new website:

July 13, 2007

BC students who apply for a break from student loan repayment will know the province’s decision within hours of filing for debt relief online.  A new provincial website takes the response time down from several weeks to only several hours.  More than 8,000 people in BC are given respite from their student loan payments every year.  The site is Canada’s “first completely online interest-relief application.”  BC News Release