Events

The Department of Education recently announced an overhaul of the PSLF program designed to allow millions of public service workers who have been struggling under the weight of student loan debt a path to relief. In short, borrowers who were previously ineligible because they had the wrong loan, were making payments on the wrong payment […]

The SBPC is hosting an event looking at what state legislators, regulators, enforcement officials, and advocates must do to tackle the most pressing consumer protection issues facing student loan borrowers and help advance changes to fix our fundamentally broken student loan system. Student loan borrowers are at a breaking point. 45 million borrowers collectively owe […]

### The Student Loan Law Initiative, a joint project of the Student Borrower Protection Center and the University of California, Irvine School of Law, a hosted a virtual event examining the Biden administration’s work to address the student debt crisis, lessons learned from various debt relief measures, and what must be done to stand up for […]

Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) was meant to offer millions of federal student loan borrowers a pathway out from under historic levels of student debt. Unfortunately, IDR’s track record of success in making student loans affordable and time-limited is mixed. A growing body of analysis points to significant problems with the implementation and current design of IDR, […]

Join the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) and UnidosUS for a webinar highlighting what Latino student loan borrowers need to know about managing their student loans, information on accessing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, and to learn about getting involved in a campaign to restore the promise of PSLF. The webinar will feature […]

Join the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), the American Federation of Teachers, and the American Association of University Professors for a webinar highlighting what adjunct and contingent faculty need to know about managing their student loans, information on accessing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, and to learn about getting involved in a campaign […]

The Student Borrower Protection Center, and the National Association of Social Workers hosted a webinar highlighting what social workers need to know about managing their student loans, information on accessing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, and ways to get involved in a campaign to restore the promise of PSLF. For the first time […]

The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) and Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) hosted a town hall event highlighting the experiences and struggles of public service workers’ accessing promised student loan forgiveness and why the Biden administration must take bold action to fix the broken Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. The event included remarks from […]

The SBPC and Veterans Education Success (VES) held a webinar highlighting what veterans, servicemembers and their families need to know about managing their student loans, information on accessing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, and to learn about getting involved in a campaign to restore the promise of PSLF. For the first time ever, […]

This event hosted by the SBPC examined the impact of discrimination in the student loan market and how novel legal strategies to address it can be used to crack down on harmful and predatory practices across the consumer financial marketplace. For decades, gaps in the legal system have left broad swaths of the consumer finance […]