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Maryland Institutional Debt Public Records Analysis
The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) submitted Maryland Public Information Act requests to 12 different public higher education institutions in the state of Maryland seeking information about the debt that current and former students owe to their schools. Only five out of the 12 institutions provided any data, and even of those that did, the data received was incomplete.
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Statewide Fact Sheets on the Impact of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
These fact sheets—created by SBPC, AFR, and CFA—shed light on the number of Americans in each state who have reached out to the CFPB for help and have benefitted from the CFPB’s work to hold companies accountable for abusive, predatory, and deceptive practices.
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Fact Sheet: The CFPB Protects Student Loan Borrowers and Holds Bad Actors Accountable
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created in the devastating wake of the 2008 financial crisis, is an independent agency that enforces consumer protection laws and protects people from financial companies engaged in unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices. Since its creation, the CFPB has already obtained over $21 billion in relief for over 205 million people from companies that cheated and violated the law—including more than $5 billion in relief for Americans with…
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Maryland Institutional Debt Public Records Analysis
The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) submitted Maryland Public Information Act requests to 12 different public higher education institutions in the state of Maryland seeking information about the debt that current and former students owe to their schools. Only five out of the 12 institutions provided any data, and even of those that did, the data received was incomplete.
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Statewide Fact Sheets on the Impact of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
These fact sheets—created by SBPC, AFR, and CFA—shed light on the number of Americans in each state who have reached out to the CFPB for help and have benefitted from the CFPB’s work to hold companies accountable for abusive, predatory, and deceptive practices.
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Fact Sheet: The CFPB Protects Student Loan Borrowers and Holds Bad Actors Accountable
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created in the devastating wake of the 2008 financial crisis, is an independent agency that enforces consumer protection laws and protects people from financial companies engaged in unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices. Since its creation, the CFPB has already obtained over $21 billion in relief for over 205 million people from companies that cheated and violated the law—including more than $5 billion in relief for Americans with…
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Latest Work
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Maryland Institutional Debt Public Records Analysis
The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) submitted Maryland Public Information Act requests to 12 different public higher education institutions in the state of Maryland seeking information about the debt that current and former students owe to their schools. Only five out of the 12 institutions provided any data, and even of those that did, the data received was incomplete.
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Statewide Fact Sheets on the Impact of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
These fact sheets—created by SBPC, AFR, and CFA—shed light on the number of Americans in each state who have reached out to the CFPB for help and have benefitted from the CFPB’s work to hold companies accountable for abusive, predatory, and deceptive practices.
More
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Fact Sheet: The CFPB Protects Student Loan Borrowers and Holds Bad Actors Accountable
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created in the devastating wake of the 2008 financial crisis, is an independent agency that enforces consumer protection laws and protects people from financial companies engaged in unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices. Since its creation, the CFPB has already obtained over $21 billion in relief for over 205 million people from companies that cheated and violated the law—including more than $5 billion in relief for Americans with…
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Latest Work
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Maryland Institutional Debt Public Records Analysis
The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) submitted Maryland Public Information Act requests to 12 different public higher education institutions in the state of Maryland seeking information about the debt that current and former students owe to their schools. Only five out of the 12 institutions provided any data, and even of those that did, the data received was incomplete.
More
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Statewide Fact Sheets on the Impact of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
These fact sheets—created by SBPC, AFR, and CFA—shed light on the number of Americans in each state who have reached out to the CFPB for help and have benefitted from the CFPB’s work to hold companies accountable for abusive, predatory, and deceptive practices.
More
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Fact Sheet: The CFPB Protects Student Loan Borrowers and Holds Bad Actors Accountable
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created in the devastating wake of the 2008 financial crisis, is an independent agency that enforces consumer protection laws and protects people from financial companies engaged in unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices. Since its creation, the CFPB has already obtained over $21 billion in relief for over 205 million people from companies that cheated and violated the law—including more than $5 billion in relief for Americans with…
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SBPC and AFR Urge Industry to Provide Relief to Private Student Loan Borrowers During Coronavirus Pandemic
In letters sent to a dozen large private student loan companies, the SBPC and Americans for Financial Reform (AFR), urge the companies to take steps to mitigate harm to private student loan borrowers caused by the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
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SBPC and AFT Demand Government and Industry Leaders Take Action to Protect Borrowers During Coronavirus Pandemic
In letters sent to ED Secretary Betsy DeVos, CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger, and student loan industry CEOs, SBPC and the AFT demand action to protect student loan borrowers during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Private Student Loan Collections Issue Brief: Maryland Spotlight
In an issue brief, the SBPC shows how private student loan collection practices are harming borrowers across the country — with a spotlight on Maryland borrowers.
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FOIA Production US Department of Education On PSLF Pt. 4
View our FOIA-obtained document.
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Testimony of Tariq Habash Before the Maryland Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee
Testimony in support of legislation which defines and addresses some of the most critical elements affecting students in the event of a disorderly school closure.
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Educational Redlining
The SBPC’s analysis of fintech and banking products uncovered cases where a prospective borrower may be hit with thousands of dollars in additional credit costs if he or she attended a community college, an Historically Black College or University (HBCU), or an Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).
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Testimony of Katherine Welbeck Before The Assembly Select Committee on Student Debt
Testimony of Katherine Welbeck Before the California Assembly Select Committee on Student Debt: Student Debt Impacts on California Neighborhoods
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SBPC and SVA Urge Department of Education to Protect Service Members from Student Loan Abuses
In a letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the SBPC and Student Veterans of America (SVA), urges the Department of Education to abandon a policy intended to obstruct oversight by agencies charged with enforcing law that protect military borrowers including the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA).
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SBPC and Civil Rights Groups Urge CFPB to Root Out Discrimination in Student Loan Industry
In a letter to CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger, SBPC and a wide range of civil rights organizations urge the CFPB to utilize its critical enforcement and supervision tools to protect borrowers from discrimination in the student loan industry.
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