Press Releases

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.

Student loan borrowers already face widespread abuses by student loan companies; shutdown "will be a catastrophe.”

Cities offer dire warning: resuming payments without a path to broad-based student debt relief would cause catastrophic wave of borrower distress and local economic instability.

Newly released documents show Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) sought to block federal inquiry into private student loan collection scheme.