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    Mar 19, 2020

    TOMORROW: SBPC to Host Free Webinar on Student Loan Repayment Options During COVID-19

    The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are co-hosting a free webinar focusing on student loan repayment during the coronavirus pandemic.

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    Mar 13, 2020

    New Data Show Student Loan Defaults Spiked in 2019 – A Warning to Industry and DeVos Amid Economic Fallout

    The Department of Education’s (ED) most recent quarterly update on its student loan portfolio contained a crucial number that seems to have gone widely overlooked: 1,228,600. That figure represents the cumulative total of unique federal student loan borrowers who defaulted on their loans (that is, reached a full 361 days of delinquency) during the 2019 federal fiscal year.

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  • Blogs
    Mar 6, 2020

    Are Millions of Student Loan Borrowers About to Pay for Banks’ LIBOR Fraud?

    The Student Borrower Protection Center, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and the National Consumer Law Center today raised concerns to the ARRC with various aspects of industry’s transition from LIBOR to spread-adjusted SOFR.

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    Mar 4, 2020

    Maryland Stands Up to Predatory Student Loan Lawsuit Machine Targeting Borrowers of Color

    This morning, we released new analysis showing how these private student loan collection practices are harming borrowers across the country—and hitting borrowers in Maryland particularly hard. Creditors are dragging Maryland borrowers into court for debt they often do not owe. Lacking the documents necessary to back up their claims, these companies are manipulating courts into garnishing borrowers’ wages for illegitimate debt.

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    Feb 14, 2020

    One More Way States Can Step Up as Betsy DeVos Rolls Back Legal Protections

    For-profit schools have a long track record of engaging in fraudulent and deceptive tactics to entice vulnerable students to enroll—often charging significantly more than their nonprofit counterparts. Once enrolled, many of these students are pressured into taking out high-cost loans for what are often worthless degrees.

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  • Blogs
    Feb 13, 2020

    New Funding Opportunity: Join Us in Helping to End the Student Debt Crisis

    To help move the needle, today, the Student Loan Law Initiative, a partnership of the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) and the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law), is launching a new grants program to support researchers who want to begin tackling these questions.

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  • Blogs
    Feb 12, 2020

    A New Debt Collection Lawsuit Gives us a Glimpse at the Future of Student Loan Servicing for Tens of Millions of Borrowers

    In her complaint, filed by our partners at the National Consumer Law Center and Justice Catalyst Law, she alleges that the company ignored its duty to stop collecting against her—a right she is guaranteed under rules that protect borrowers defrauded by for-profit colleges. In the process, her student loan company violated a federal consumer protection law, known as the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

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    Feb 7, 2020

    20 Questions to the CFPB

    We’ve put together some helpful questions to the agencies in an attempt to get a handle on what this new scheme means for borrowers. The answers to these questions will determine whether borrowers are getting a bad deal and also whether these agencies are breaking the law.

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  • Blogs
    Feb 4, 2020

    Who is Watching Out for Students?

    The U.S. Department of Education and the CFPB need to act on campus debit cards.

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    Jan 28, 2020

    How a Data Company at the Center of the Student Loan System is Costing Borrowers Millions

    Every day, consumer reporting companies across the country collect information and produce reports about hundreds of millions of Americans. These reports are provided to or bought by other companies and used to determine access to credit, employment, housing, insurance, and more. The information contained in the reports significantly impacts millions of people’s lives.

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