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Sep 2, 2021

New Evidence Reveals Guaranty Agencies Violated ED Orders to Stop Preying on Student Loan Borrowers During COVID

New evidence uncovered through a FOIA request indicates that Guaranty Agencies did not comply with Department of Education guidance directing them to stop garnishing wages from defaulted borrowers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Aug 30, 2021

Frontline Workers Who Fought Through the Pandemic Are Being Denied Promised Student Debt Forgiveness

These workers have been under enormous strain. Unfortunately, student debt adds to that burden. But after rising to the moment, these brave men and women are faced with broken promises and denied student debt relief because of the failures of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

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Aug 24, 2021

Shocking New Data Show Why California Lawmakers Must Protect Borrowers and Rein in Abusive Student Loan Debt Collectors

The SBPC released a new report exposing the punishing consequences for private student loan borrowers in California who fall behind on their debts. This study, authored by Claire Johnson Raba, an SBPC fellow and a clinical teaching fellow at the University of California Irvine School of Law’s Consumer Law Clinic, shows why California’s AB 424 is urgently needed.

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Aug 19, 2021

ED, the CFPB, and Borrowers Can All Hold School and Creditors Accountable for Predatory Lending Schemes

Our new legal memo provides a roadmap to ensure that companies are held accountable for unlawful practices.

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Aug 6, 2021

A Quirk of the Calendar is About to Lead Borrowers to Pay Billions More on their Federal Student Loans. The Department of Education Can Prevent This.

A legal quirk is slated to lead millions of students taking on federal student loans over the next year to face billions of dollars of unnecessary added charges throughout repayment.

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Aug 4, 2021

Student Debt In Disguise: How Employers are Using Predatory Debt to Hurt Workers and Hold Back Competition

New evidence indicates that employers nationwide are increasingly leveraging shadow student debt to trap workers into unfair contracts and substandard working conditions. In particular, a growing number of industries and employers are using bait-and-switch tactics to force workers to take on loans and debt through nefarious “training repayment agreements.”

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Jul 27, 2021

Calling on America’s Public Service Workers: Share Your PSLF Story

This week, for the first time ever, the U.S. Department of Education is asking for the public to share their stories about public service and debt forgiveness. Now is the time to call for the government to keep its promise to public service workers.

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Jul 14, 2021

What Borrowers Need to Know About the End of PHEAA’s Federal Student Loan Servicing

Accounts for 8.5 million federal student loan borrowers will have to be transferred to a new servicer in a few short months. Additionally, unless the Biden Administration takes action to extend the payment pause on federal student loans, this large transfer will take place just after payments for tens of millions of borrowers are expected to resume at the end of September.

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Jul 9, 2021

Borrowers Need the Department of Education to Answer These 14 Key Questions and Many More as PHEAA Exits Federal Student Loan Servicing

The embattled student loan giant known as PHEAA announced that it intends to exit its role as a federal student loan servicer. Here are just 14 of the many questions that demand immediate answers from PHEAA and the Department of Education.

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Jul 8, 2021

New Data Show Alarming Racial Disparities for Student Loan Debt Collections

Our analysis of new data uncovers stark racial disparities at the local level in student debt distress.

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