Advocacy

In a letter, SBPC praises and offers certain recommendations to strengthen ED's February 2023 letter revising guidance to institutions that contract with third-party servicers to administer any aspect of their participation in the Title IV program.

In a letter, SBPC outlines the various failures and harms that stem from ED's "bundled services" loophole, and calls for its immediate recission.

SBPC urges ED to conduct long-overdue scrutiny of the student loan system, study the effects of debt on borrowers' lives, and provide basic but unknown facts about federal student lending.

SBPC comments on proposed changes to income-driven repayment, praising certain expansions of the protection while urging ED to go further and eliminate shortcomings likely to hurt those who are already financially vulnerable.

SBPC calls on ED to use its existing authorities more robustly to weed out predatory courses of study.

This memo urges the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to reconsider its exclusion of periods of time in default from the one-time Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Account Adjustment, which ED announced as a remedy for borrowers who have been steered into forbearance or otherwise knocked off course from IDR cancellation.

In a letter, the Student Borrower Protection Center calls on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to wield authorities already at its disposal to initiate long-overdue supervision of Accenture Federal Services.

On November 14, a coalition of non-profit organizations—including Student Borrower Protection Center; Community Legal Services of Philadelphia; Delaware Community Legal Aid Society; New Jersey Citizen Action; and New York Legal Assistance Group—filed an amicus brief to support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) efforts to hold the National Collegiate Student...

SBPC calls on ED to hold Accenture Federal Services accountable for sending inaccurate communications to millions of borrowers about their applications for student debt relief.

Series of amicus curiae briefs show that student debt relief is lawful and urgently needed to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic