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“This was the moment that people in Washington started to take student debt seriously,” Pierce said. Chopra’s agenda-setting work in those days, he said, helped shape monumental changes in the student-loan market over the next decade–including the Biden administration’s announcement this summer on student debt cancellation. 

As part of a scheme to deprive borrowers of their rights in bankruptcy, student loan companies may have also routinely made misrepresentations on tax filings and drove student loan borrowers make false statements on tax forms.

A court issued an injunction temporarily halting a years-long plot by the massive student loan company Navient to cheat borrowers out of their right to loan discharge in bankruptcy.

SLLI is announcing a new round of grant funding to support researchers interested in tackling the student debt crisis and a program to assist emerging scholars in a range of fields interested in conducting novel student loan research.

"The most important thing is that people apply for debt relief. Nothing has changed," Mike Pierce, executive director and co-founder of the Student Borrower Protection Center, told ABC News. "The fact that the application is open, it is simple, it works, it is easy, and the administration is putting the...

The changes announced Tuesday “are good news for borrowers,” said Mike Pierce, the executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, an advocacy group. “The administration realized that the system was bending under the deadline, and they found a way forward for most people.”

Most benefits of the PSLF Waiver, set to expire on Halloween, have been extended for millions of workers through planned overhaul of Income-Driven Repayment.

The SBPC, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, the Debt Collective, Center for Responsible Lending, and Student Debt Crisis Center sent a letter to the Consumer Bankers Association demanding that it abandon its bad-faith legal action against the CFPB.

“We have a politically motivated lawsuit about whether or not MOHELA’s right to make money is more important than the borrower’s right to get relief,” says Yu, a sentiment echoed by many student debt cancellation advocates, including Missouri congresswoman Cori Bush. It puts the financial interests of entities like MOHELA ahead of...

Aissa Canchola Bañez, senior advisor for policy and strategy at advocacy group Student Borrower Protection Center, told Insider that borrowers experiencing these challenges should be filing complaints with the Education Department. "The best way that we can change these practices is shedding light on just how egregious and how systemic some...