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New data from the Department of Education indicate that tens of thousands of public servants have been making payments on their debt that didn’t count towards their eligibility for forgiveness. In other words, they’ll be working in public service and making payments on their loans for more than 10 years...

New data released by the U.S. Department of Education shows that most borrowers who apply to a key student loan forgiveness program are denied relief. The data shows that 98% of applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) from November 9, 2020 to April 30, 2021 were rejected. Only two out of...

Public colleges and universities -- including Virginia Tech, the University of Connecticut and the University of Oklahoma -- are encouraging students to take out high-cost, high-risk loans for non-degree-granting programs, according to findings in a new report.

President Joe Biden campaigned on reforming the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, which has been under fire for years for rejecting the vast majority of applicants. New Education Department data found that 98% of borrowers are still being rejected from the program.

The results of a new investigation published today by the SBPC illustrate yet another way that ISA providers have premised their business on illegal tactics, as well as the broad scope of legal liability that ripples out of these practices for ISA companies and their enablers.

Multiple student loan servicers — the companies that manage your student loan payments — allegedly made major errors during the Covid-19 pandemic, which may have directly hurt your credit score. Those are the allegations inside a shocking report, which describes wide-scale errors involving your student loans that were larger than...

A report being released Friday by the SBPC accuses schools, such as Virginia Tech and Indiana University, of promoting specialty finance companies that can charge double-digit interest for loans with opaque terms.

Public colleges and universities nationwide are driving students toward expensive, predatory student debt according to a new report issued today by the Student Borrower Protection Center.

The Education Department (ED) is throwing out Trump-era guidance that blocked state consumer protection agencies from obtaining data about student debtors from student loan servicers.

It’s still early, but a few initial moves from Biden’s time in the White House indicate that he’s more ready to acknowledge that the country’s outstanding $1.7 trillion in student loan debt is the result of a broken and punishing system.