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November 22, 2022

New Analysis Illustrates Massive Benefits of Student Debt Cancellation Across Borrowers’ Lives

A team of researchers released the results of a groundbreaking analysis revealing the massive personal benefits that student loan borrowers enjoy as they approach and, in particular, as they achieve debt cancellation through Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

November 21, 2022

200+ Organizations Call on Biden to Extend Student Loan Payment Pause and Protect Debt Relief from Political Schemes

As Republican-appointed judges block relief from millions, federal student loan payments set to resume in fewer than 45 days, advocates warn restarting payments before fully implementing debt cancellation will lead to economic catastrophe.

November 17, 2022

Advocates Cautiously Optimistic About Administration’s Plan to Improve Student Loan Bankruptcy

Today, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice announced new guidance for when the government should allow a student loan borrower who has filed bankruptcy to be relieved of a federal student loan debt.

November 15, 2022

8th Circuit Backs GOP Attack On Student Debt Relief—Biden Administration Must Strengthen Response to Protect Relief

Student Borrower Protection Center Leadership Call on President Biden to extend the student loan payment pause until he is able to cancel student debt for 40 million Americans.

November 10, 2022

Right-Wing Federal Judge Sides with Extreme Conservative Dark Money on Halting Student Debt, Biden Administration Must Stand Strong on Cancellation

Student Borrower Protection Center calls on President Biden to extend payment pause and use all available legal tools to cancel student debt for 40 million Americans.

November 3, 2022

Statements on Nationwide Injunction Halting Navient’s Scheme to Rob Borrowers of their Bankruptcy Rights

A court issued an injunction temporarily halting a years-long plot by the massive student loan company Navient to cheat borrowers out of their right to loan discharge in bankruptcy.

October 28, 2022

Student Loan Law Initiative Launches New Round of Funding for Groundbreaking Research, New Platform for Emerging Scholars to End the Student Debt Crisis

SLLI is announcing a new round of grant funding to support researchers interested in tackling the student debt crisis and a program to assist emerging scholars in a range of fields interested in conducting novel student loan research.

October 25, 2022

Biden Administration Listens to Borrowers, Grants Last-Minute Reprieve to Millions of Public Service Workers With Student Debt; Action Still Leaves Many Without Path to Debt Relief

Most benefits of the PSLF Waiver, set to expire on Halloween, have been extended for millions of workers through planned overhaul of Income-Driven Repayment.

October 25, 2022

Advocates Demand Consumer Bankers Association Abandon its Shameful Crusade to Defend Discrimination

The SBPC, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, the Debt Collective, Center for Responsible Lending, and Student Debt Crisis Center sent a letter to the Consumer Bankers Association demanding that it abandon its bad-faith legal action against the CFPB.

October 20, 2022

In Victory for Student Loan Borrowers, Federal Judge Rejects Major Legal Challenge to Student Debt Relief

Student Borrower Protection Center leadership praise ruling dismissing right-wing scheme to block student debt relief for 40 million Americans.

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