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Lawmakers in several states in addition to Virginia have also introduced billsans, according to the Student Borrower Protection Center, including Connecticut, Louisiana, Maryland Massachusetts and New Jersey. "As more states prohibit transcript withholding as a debt collection tactic, they are also looking to the future and asking 'How can we...

Progressives object to the idea that the interests of any Education Department contractor would be used to overturn an administration’s student loan policy. “It’s not just that this could derail debt cancellation, but it sets up a dynamic where the legal status of these contractors creates veto points in the...

Deputy executive director and managing counsel for the Student Borrower Protection Center, Persis Yu, says this will leave borrowers "in limbo" until the Supreme Court hears the case next year.

On Thursday, the Student Borrower Protection Center released a report that found, via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by advocacy group Student Defense, that the Education Department continued to garnish student-loan borrowers' wages after Congress required the department to cease those collection tactics when the pandemic began...

“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 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...