Student loan servicers are granting 90 days forbearance during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by CafeCredit.com/Flickr)

Twenty-one of the state’s 24 largest student loan servicers will offer 90 days of forbearance on student loan payments to more than one million residents during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced recently.

Newsom credited Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker for leading the effort to support borrowers who were not covered by debt forbearance in the $2.2 trillion federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

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Eli covers public health, transportation and state politics for the Bay City News Foundation, serves as the main editor of the Public Health and COVID-19 Information Hub and assists with Local News Matters' social media strategy. He has also previously covered local politics in San Diego County as well as college and professional sports across the Bay Area.