Student Debt # How Restarting Student Loan Payments Could Change Millions of Lives — And The Economy By Monica Potts ## Aug. 28 , 2023, at 6:00 AM ABC News Photo Illustration When Congress voted in May to restart student loan payments this fall — and then the Supreme Court overturned President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan in June — Alexa Goins and her husband realized they had a choice: They could keep their house or they could pay off their student debt. Together, she and her husband owe $41,000 in student loans — she had borrowed for her undergraduate education, and he borrowed for another program. He is currently between jobs, looking to break into the tech industry, so they’re living off Goins’s $80,000 per year salary as a senior writer at an ad agency. “We’re kind of living paycheck to paycheck right now,” said Goins, now 29. Her husband bought the Indianapolis house they live in before their marriage, and they were thinking of leaving the city in a year or two anyway.…