Advocacy

Groups applaud President Biden for announcing plans to enact a new student debt relief plan under the Higher Education Act in response to unjust SCOTUS ruling and urge him to deliver it quickly.

Using popular polling and analysis, this memo makes the political case for action in the face of the unjust ruling blocking the President’s plan to use emergency powers to cancel student debt.

In a letter, the Student Borrower Protection Center formally calls on Justice Alito to recuse himself from Biden v. Nebraska and U.S. Department of Education v. Brown following his well-documented financial entanglement with billionaire investor Paul Singer. Prior to the decisions in these cases, new reporting from ProPublica highlighted that...

In a letter, SBPC and US PIRG call on the FDIC and North Carolina regulators to intervene in a proposed "Deposit Processing Services Agreement" between First Carolina Bank and BM Technologies.

261 organizations send a letter calling on members of Congress to reject Republican efforts to use the CRA to reverse the federal student loan payment pause and block President Biden’s debt relief plan.

The SBPC sends a letter applauding the University of California's recent decision to ban fully online degrees, while urging it to fully protect students from predatory online program managers by also banning fully online non-degree programs.

The SBPC sends a letter applauding the University of California's recent decision to ban fully online degrees, while urging it to fully protect students from predatory online program managers by also banning fully online non-degree programs.

The SBPC submits a comment applauding certain proposed changes aimed at expanding access to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and outlining additional needed changes.

SBPC offers comments on the CFPB's proposal to create a registry of nonbanks that use restrictive terms in form contracts to block borrowers' rights. SBPC praises the idea against a backdrop of endemic abuse and offers suggestions for how the CFPB could strengthen it.

In a letter, the SBPC praises and offers additional suggestions to strengthen the CFPB's proposal to create a registry of covered nonbanks that are subject to certain federal, state, or local agency orders.