Latest Work
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Preliminary Economic Analysis of Senate Proposal on Student Loan Repayment
Read SBPC’s letter to Chairman Cassidy and Ranking Member Sanders detailing that the Senate reconciliation proposal will cost borrowers hundreds of dollars per month, or thousands of dollars per year.
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Group Letter to ED on Student Debt Rulemaking Panel
Dozens of organizations representing millions sent a letter to ED urging officials to expand the slate of negotiator seats on its proposed neg reg committee.
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Deep Dive: Moving Student Loans Out of the Education Department is a Risky Gamble for Borrowers and the U.S. Economy
This Deep Dive details how the Trump Administration’s reported efforts to charge the Small Business Administration with oversight of federal student loans are illegal and would result in a major decline in quality of services for borrowers already facing tremendous economic uncertainty.
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Latest Work
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Preliminary Economic Analysis of Senate Proposal on Student Loan Repayment
Read SBPC’s letter to Chairman Cassidy and Ranking Member Sanders detailing that the Senate reconciliation proposal will cost borrowers hundreds of dollars per month, or thousands of dollars per year.
More
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Group Letter to ED on Student Debt Rulemaking Panel
Dozens of organizations representing millions sent a letter to ED urging officials to expand the slate of negotiator seats on its proposed neg reg committee.
More
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Deep Dive: Moving Student Loans Out of the Education Department is a Risky Gamble for Borrowers and the U.S. Economy
This Deep Dive details how the Trump Administration’s reported efforts to charge the Small Business Administration with oversight of federal student loans are illegal and would result in a major decline in quality of services for borrowers already facing tremendous economic uncertainty.
More
Latest Work
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Preliminary Economic Analysis of Senate Proposal on Student Loan Repayment
Read SBPC’s letter to Chairman Cassidy and Ranking Member Sanders detailing that the Senate reconciliation proposal will cost borrowers hundreds of dollars per month, or thousands of dollars per year.
More
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Group Letter to ED on Student Debt Rulemaking Panel
Dozens of organizations representing millions sent a letter to ED urging officials to expand the slate of negotiator seats on its proposed neg reg committee.
More
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Deep Dive: Moving Student Loans Out of the Education Department is a Risky Gamble for Borrowers and the U.S. Economy
This Deep Dive details how the Trump Administration’s reported efforts to charge the Small Business Administration with oversight of federal student loans are illegal and would result in a major decline in quality of services for borrowers already facing tremendous economic uncertainty.
More
Latest Work
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Preliminary Economic Analysis of Senate Proposal on Student Loan Repayment
Read SBPC’s letter to Chairman Cassidy and Ranking Member Sanders detailing that the Senate reconciliation proposal will cost borrowers hundreds of dollars per month, or thousands of dollars per year.
More
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Group Letter to ED on Student Debt Rulemaking Panel
Dozens of organizations representing millions sent a letter to ED urging officials to expand the slate of negotiator seats on its proposed neg reg committee.
More
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Deep Dive: Moving Student Loans Out of the Education Department is a Risky Gamble for Borrowers and the U.S. Economy
This Deep Dive details how the Trump Administration’s reported efforts to charge the Small Business Administration with oversight of federal student loans are illegal and would result in a major decline in quality of services for borrowers already facing tremendous economic uncertainty.
More
Latest Work
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Mapping Exploitation: Examining For-Profit Colleges as Financial Predators in Communities of Color
This report examines how predatory for-profit institutions are geographically targeting communities of color in cities in the Upper Midwest and across the country. By targeting prospective Black and Latino students with dubious educational programs and high levels of debt, the report shows how these institutions are systematically stripping wealth from these communities.
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Comments from the Student Borrower Protection Center to the Department of Education re: Intent to Establish Negotiated Rulemaking Committee
SBPC submitted a comment to ED outlining SBPC’s priorities to protect student loan borrowers and address the burden of student debt on families, communities, and the economy.
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Over 125 Advocacy Organizations Call on President Biden to Keep Student Loan Payments Shut Off
In a letter to President Biden, the SBPC and over 125 organizations representing millions of students, workers, people of color, veterans, people with disabilities, and people of faith, call on the Administration to extend the pause on student loan payments scheduled to resume for millions of borrowers on October 1, 2021.
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Pushing Predatory Products: How Public Universities are Partnering with Unaccountable Contractors to Drive Students Toward Risky Private Debt and Credit
This report is the result of an investigation revealing that public colleges and universities nationwide are driving students toward expensive, predatory student debt.
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Big Data and Big Errors: Why Giving Furnishers a Free Pass Undermines the Credit Reporting System and Denies Consumers Access to Justice
This report from the SBPC and Berger Montague attorney John Albanese examines how creditors, including student loan companies, routinely furnish inaccurate information to consumer reporting agencies like Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion.
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Campus Debit and Prepaid Cards and Best Financial Interest Standard
This issue brief, from the SPBC and the Consumer Financial Transactions Clinic at the University of North Carolina, School of Law, examines how the Department of Education can more fully implement rules already on the books to crack down on abuses in the market for school-sponsored prepaid cards and debit cards.
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Discrimination is Unfair: Interpreting UDA(A)P to Prohibit Discrimination
This report from the SBPC and Relman Colfax attorneys Stephen Hayes and Kali Schellenberg, examines how laws prohibiting unfair, deceptive (and sometimes abusive) acts and practices (“UDA(A)Ps”) can be applied to combat discrimination in the student loan market and beyond.
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97 Advocacy Organizations Call on the Secretary of Education to Cancel Student Debt for All Public Service Workers with 10 or More Years of Service
In a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, the SBPC, Equal Justice Works, and 95 other advocacy organizations, call on ED to conduct an immediate 90 day review of the PSLF program and cancel the student loan debt of all public service workers who have completed ten or more years of service.
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