Domino: A Blog About Student Debt

By Amy Czulada and Peter Perkowski | May 30, 2023 This week marks Memorial Day, and we honor the servicemembers who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect and defend our country and its most deeply held principles. As we support all veterans and servicemembers, we cannot overlook the $2.9...

By Chris Hicks | May 19, 2023 Yesterday, shareholders of one of the largest student loan companies in the country gathered in Lincoln, Nebraska and reminded student loan borrowers: student debt is “good debt” if you’re the debt collector. Just ask Jeffrey Noordhoek, Nelnet’s CEO, who was paid more than...

SBPC has conducted a new analysis that proves the payment pause has significantly benefitted federal student loan borrowers, and the CRA resolutions challenging President Biden's debt relief would be disastrous if passed.

SBPC has conducted a new analysis that proves the payment pause has significantly benefitted federal student loan borrowers, and the CRA resolutions challenging President Biden's debt relief would be disastrous if passed.

SBPC has uncovered new evidence that GAs stole millions of dollars from borrowers and illicitly refused tens of millions of dollars of refunds after already getting caught breaking the law.

A report from Virginia's Secretary of Education points to a massive and growing institutional debt burden disproportionately harming many of the state's most historically marginalized students.

New research from the Student Loan Law Initiative shows that the payment pause was even more helpful and even better targeted than previously understood for California borrowers.

The FDIC's recent action against TAB Bank should mark the start of a broader effort weed out predatory student loan rent-a-bank partnerships.

Across the districts represented by the 128 Members of Congress who urged the Supreme Court to block student debt relief, more than 7.5 million people applied to have their student debt cancelled, and more than 4.5 million have been approved.

Thanks to changes that ED made in late December 2022, Parent PLUS borrowers will now be able to count time received though the IDR Account Adjustment towards PSLF.