Advocacy

View our series of letters from SBPC and AFT to federal regulators referring MOHELA for prosecution.

AFT filed a groundbreaking consumer protection lawsuit against the Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri (MOHELA), the giant student loan servicing company under fire for mismanaging student loan accounts for millions of people. AFT is represented by the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), National Consumer Law Center...

227 organizations representing millions urge ED to immediately unveil its NPRM to provide student loan debt relief to borrowers experiencing hardship.

Read the public comment submissions and borrower stories demonstrating the life-changing impact that President Biden’s new proposal would have.

20 organizations wrote the FTC to highlight new research documenting the growing use of TRAPs, and called for the FTC to ban their use in the final non-compete rule.

In response to the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Application, the Student Borrower Protection Center submitted a comment urging the Department to finalize the proposed application and begin to implement the Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act quickly and to the fullest extent possible.

Civil rights, labor, and borrower advocacy groups representing millions urge the Education Department to hold a fourth negotiated rulemaking session to properly establish a rule to support borrowers experiencing hardship.

This memo details the authorities held by federal and state consumer protection agencies that can be used to address student loan servicers that are blocking millions of federal student loan borrowers from receiving debt cancellation granted by Congress.

At a virtual event, SBPC and SLLI release a new report projecting widespread distress among California student loan borrowers in Latino/a communities.

On behalf of more than 1.2 million student loan borrowers with nearly $50B in student debt, a coalition of 20 cities and counties urge President Biden to swiftly deliver on promised student debt relief.