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    Sep 30, 2021

    Millions of Low-Income Student Loan Borrowers Deserve Better than Another Dead End

    We now know that a generation of student loan borrowers remain trapped in this broken system and that, without structural changes by ED, IDR will not offer a viable way out for these borrowers in the future.

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    Sep 27, 2021

    Policy Choices are Driving Racial Disparities in Access to Income-Driven Repayment

    A new SBPC report sounds a warning that failures in the design of the IDR application process may exacerbate the unevenness of pandemic recovery along racial lines.

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  • Blogs
    Sep 23, 2021

    Public Service Workers Who Did Everything Right are Being Blocked from Promised Loan Relief Because of Tricks and Traps

    Too many public service workers with older federal loans discover they can’t get PSLF because they have the wrong type of loan, while industry and ED block these borrowers from taking steps to secure relief.

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    Sep 20, 2021

    PSLF Borrower Voices: Spotlighting Servicemembers Denied Earned Loan Forgiveness

    Servicemembers across the country are continually being denied promised student loan relief through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program even after a decade or more of service in uniform. This fact is a national disgrace.

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    Sep 17, 2021

    IDR Aimed to Make Federal Student Loans Affordable. It Made Them Even More of a Debt Trap.

    Policymakers designed a system that assumed the amount of debt borrowers take on is largely immaterial, and the result is that millions of borrowers have been left to deal with the financial and psychological ramifications of decades of runaway debt.

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    Sep 10, 2021

    Fulfilling the Promise of Income-Driven Repayment

    It’s time for policymakers to weigh whether the IDR program is fulfilling its promise. And if not, it’s time to boldly rethink the design and delivery of the protections that borrowers deserve.

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    Sep 9, 2021

    Newly Uncovered Internal Projections from a Department of Education Contractor Show PSLF Problems Will Persist Over Time

    New evidence uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act request indicates that without bold and swift action by the Secretary of Education and President Biden, PSLF is likely to fail the vast majority of borrowers working in public service over the long term.

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  • Blogs
    Sep 6, 2021

    Dignified in Work, Drowning in Debt

    The student debt crisis—and the failure of PSLF to provide meaningful relief to working families—has financially devastated tens of millions of low to middle-income households. Every month, in every community across the country, working families receive a student debt bill that forces them to put off saving for their kids’ education, delay making a downpayment on a house, or even hinder their own retirement savings.

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  • Blogs
    Sep 3, 2021

    Tell the Department of Education to Fix Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Deliver on the Promise of Debt Relief for the Legal Services Community

    Legal aid programs are often the first stop for Americans facing a survival crisis, but as legal aid employees have struggled with their own student loan debt, ED has failed to show up for them. ED must restore the promise of PSLF.

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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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