Press Releases

This consumer protection lawsuit opens a new front in the fight to demand justice for student loan borrowers.

Advocates welcome the fall of the former student loan giant and demand justice for borrowers cheated by Navient’s abuses.

Congress must reject efforts that will push students and families into the grips of private loan industry and exacerbate the student debt crisis.

After advocates, lawmakers and members of federal rulemaking panel urge Department of Education to hold a fourth negotiated rulemaking session to properly address student loan hardship.

Civil rights, labor, and borrower advocacy groups representing millions urge the Education Department to hold a fourth negotiated rulemaking session to properly establish a rule to support borrowers experiencing hardship.

SBPC urges lawmakers to dismiss the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act, H.R. 6585, that would deliver industry bailouts while leaving vulnerable students to pay the price.

Compendium of memos outlines broad range of executive actions that federal agencies must take to curb harmful “Stay-or-Pay” employment contracts.

Among the Department’s findings and actions, is a plan to withhold $7.2 million in payment to MOHELA meant to cover servicing it never performed.

At a virtual event, SBPC and SLLI release a new report projecting widespread distress among California student loan borrowers in Latino/a communities.

Experts and enforcement officials weigh in on rocky start to loan repayment, advocates warn loan companies: deliver debt relief or face litigation.