On this week's Wild Card podcast, Weird Al Yankov says there's something funny about being professionally weird.

I think people realize, you know, Weird Al is almost ironic because I'm like one of the more normal people in Shogu's, I think.

I'm Rachel Martin. Weird Al is on Wild Card. The show where cards control the conversation.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The Homeland Security Department announced

it will be giving a stipend to people who, quote, self-deport. Sam Pyrr's Amendment

Bastio explains the administration has invested millions into encouraging people

in the U.S. without legal status to leave.

DHS said it will give $1,000 to people who use the CBP home app to return to their home

countries. The money will allegedly be paid after they confirm their arrival through the app.

They say this is a way to make it cheaper to remove people from the U.S.

According to DHS, it costs $17,000 to arrest, detain, and remove one person.

But questions remain on the effectiveness of the program. Immigrant rights advocates say there

is an incentive for immigrants to trust the administration will follow through on payments

or the promise that they can return.

Currently, someone may have to wait 10 years before trying to return.

An illegal entry could adversely affect a future immigration application.

Jimenez-Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.

Today is the day the Department of Education says it will begin collections on defaulted federal student loans.

More from NPR's Corey Turner.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said late last month that today the Education Department would resume what's known as the Treasury Offset Program.

That means the roughly 5 million borrowers who are now in default on their federal student

loans and haven't made a payment in at least 270 days,

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