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What Betsy DeVos’s Brush with the Law Reveals About Our Broken Student Loan System By Mike Pierce | October 24, 2019 Earlier this month, a federal judge in California held a hearing to consider whether Education Secretary Betsy DeVos should be held in contempt of court. At issue: student loan...

Students also look at the total cost of the program and determine whether they qualify for financial aid and student loans. In doing their homework, students generally trust the information they get from these schools or programs because they assume some government agency is making sure schools tell the truth....

On October 4th SLLI convened leading legal scholars, student loan experts, and practitioners from across the country to share their work and shape the future of student loan research and litigation.

Today, New York Attorney General Tish James sued student loan giant Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, also known as PHEAA or FedLoan Servicing, for cheating teachers, nurses and other public service workers out of their right to loan forgiveness. In the face of mounting lawsuits and growing evidence of widespread...

States are on the front lines of the student debt crisis. State legislators and policymakers are among the first to hear stories of struggling borrowers, learn about industry abuses, and spot problems and trends in communities. Many states are also playing a critical role in overseeing student loan companies and...

Yesterday, over the objections of Navient’s attorneys, a federal judge unsealed a trove of new documents revealing a years-long, coordinated effort by company executives to cheat student loan borrowers out of their rights.

Newly unsealed court documents reveal executives at the nation’s largest student loan company orchestrated a predatory scheme to place borrowers in high-cost repayment options to boost corporate profits. Reliance on these high-cost options, known as “forbearances,” resulted in more than $4 billion in unnecessary interest charges passed on to borrowers,...

Over the course of the last decade, I traveled all across the country, talking to thousands of people in big cities, small towns, and nearly every slice of America in between. And from these conversations, I have found that one aspect of life cuts across, interweaving these communities with seemingly...

Today, a coalition of national and local non-profit organizations joined together in filing an amicus curie brief in support of the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office versus large student loan servicing company Navient.

Trump Administration’s Selection of Industry Insider for Nation’s Student Loan Watchdog Heightens Urgency to Pass AB 376 to Protect California Student Loan Borrowers Recent Revolving-Door Hire is Further Proof Washington is Failing to Stand up for Borrowers The Trump Administration’s appointment on Friday of a student loan industry executive to...