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SBPC Executive Diretor Seth Frotman released the following statement on a senate resolution calling on the President to use existing authority under the Higher Education Act to provide broad-based debt cancellation to tens of millions of student loan borrowers.

Following approval by the California State Assembly, the Student Borrower Bill of Rights is being sent to Governor Gavin Newsom.

We want to better understand the pain points student loan borrowers are facing when navigating their finances amid the coronavirus pandemic. That is why we are encouraging borrowers to share their stories by participating in our new survey aimed at identifying where these widespread errors and breakdowns are occurring in...

“Even before the current COVID-19 pandemic, student loan borrowers struggled with a predatory student loan servicing industry that knowingly misleads borrowers to increase its profits,” the coalition of organizations wrote in a letter to the Massachusetts state legislature. “With the increased financial instability brought by the present pandemic-induced economic crisis,...

An SBPC investigation found that PayPal Credit, a high-cost, digital credit product, is offered by over 150 for-profit schools as a means for students to finance tuition.

More than 70 supporters, 57 state and national civil rights, higher education, and consumer advocacy organizations sent a letter to California Senators, urging passage of the Student Borrower Bill of Rights (AB 376, Stone).

Thanks to new evidence obtained by U.S. Senator Patty Murray, we are finally beginning to understand in detail how many people across the country are being denied PSLF.

23 state and national civil rights and advocacy organizations sent letters to California Senate leadership, urging them to pass the Student Borrower Bill of Rights.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ recent response to a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee reveals that, contrary to the CFPB’s claims to Congress and a federal court, the CFPB and Department of Education are not currently conducting joint examinations of large federal student loan servicers.

AFT and the SBPC released an investigative report exposing new instances of mismanagement and abuse in the scandal-plagued Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.