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“I think when you get close to forgiveness, it starts to change the mental maps of people,” says Dan Collier, assistant professor in the leadership department at the University of Memphis, who helped write the report for the Student Borrower Protection Center, or SBPC. The results come from surveying 785...

A new report from the SBPC reveals that ED may be powerless to implement protections for defaulted borrowers as required by law and that it struggled to end illegal garnishments during COVID-19 for far longer and in much more profound ways than previously known.

A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request analyzed by the advocacy group Student Borrower Protection Center revealed the Education Department continued garnishing people’s wages at least through August 2021, 10 months longer than the agency’s inspector general reported. “It’s a leaky faucet that they can’t seem to fix,” said Persis...

According to the Student Borrower Protection Center, 90% of Black and 72% of Latinx students in the U.S. take out loans to attend college, compared with 66% of white students.

Persis Yu, deputy executive director and managing counsel for the Student Borrower Protection Center, says that this email puts many borrowers back "in limbo." "[Tuesday's email] may not seem like a big deal, but borrowers are trying to figure out how to move on with their lives," Yu says. "And...

“The letter of the law is clear: canceling student debt was legal when Joe Biden announced his historic debt relief plan in August and remains so today,” said Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center. “In the wake of a series of radical decisions decimating fundamental rights...

Characterizing the email snafus as “disastrous errors,” the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) wrote to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona last week, arguing that “this stunning and embarrassing display of incompetence by one of the big financial firms that manages the student loan system is sowing further confusion” and is “fanning...

“This extension means that struggling borrowers will be able to keep food on their tables during the holiday season — and the coming months — as the Administration does everything it can to beat back the baseless and backward attacks on working families with student debt,” said Mike Pierce, executive...

Among 1,500 midterm voters polled by the Student Borrower Protection Center and Seven Letter Insight after the general election in November, just over half (51 percent) said that student debt relief was either the only reason they voted or was very or somewhat motivating to their decision to go to...

“2023 is going to be a huge year in the student-loan world,” said Persis Yu, deputy executive director at the Student Borrower Protection Center, an advocacy group.