Letters

AFT and Student Borrower Protection Center urge the Inspectors General for the U.S. Department of Education and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to probe these agencies’ handling of their shared oversight responsibility over the $1.6 trillion federal student loan market. This comes just after nine state attorneys general and financial...

186 organizations representing millions of students, borrowers, workers, people of color, veterans, women, people with disabilities, and consumers crushed under the weight of student loan debt submitted a comment in response to the U.S. Department of Education’s notice of its intent to establish negotiated rule making aimed at overhauling the...

On April 28, 2025, ahead of the House Education and Workforce Committee’s mark up, Republican leaders on the committee released their draft budget reconciliation bill. In response, the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) sent a letter to the Committee Chairman Tim Walberg and Ranking Member Bobby Scott warning of the...

SBPC released the results of a months-long investigation into the tech company Prehired, exposing how the firm had resumed its scheme to push worthless credentials on students, paid for via its own predatory private student lending operation.

If confirmed, Linda McMahon will lead with blind loyalty to President Trump and help usher in his radical Project 2025 agenda at the expense of the American people.

This paper estimates the economic impact of student debt cancellation on borrower financial outcomes using a nationally-representative credit panel.

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

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.