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    Oct 10, 2019

    SLLI Convenes Student Loan Policy and Litigation Colloquium

    On October 4th SLLI convened leading legal scholars, student loan experts, and practitioners from across the country to share their work and shape the future of student loan research and litigation.

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    Sep 23, 2019

    Supporting States in the Fight to Protect Borrowers

    States are on the front lines of the student debt crisis. State legislators and policymakers are among the first to hear stories of struggling borrowers, learn about industry abuses, and spot problems and trends in communities. Many states are also playing a critical role in overseeing student loan companies and cracking down on predatory practices by enforcing consumer protection law.

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    Sep 19, 2019

    Five Things We Learned About Navient’s Plot to Cheat Student Borrowers

    Yesterday, over the objections of Navient’s attorneys, a federal judge unsealed a trove of new documents revealing a years-long, coordinated effort by company executives to cheat student loan borrowers out of their rights.

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    Aug 29, 2019

    Supporting States in the Fight to Protect Borrowers

    A coalition of national and local non-profit organizations joined together in filing an amicus curie brief in support of the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office versus large student loan servicing company Navient.

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  • Blogs
    Jul 24, 2019

    Educational Redlining? The use of education data in underwriting could leave HBCU and MSI graduates in the dark

    Tomorrow, the House Financial Services Committee’s Fintech Task Force is holding a hearing on the use of alternative data to expand access to credit. It is critical that the Committee examine what I believe is a dangerous and discriminatory trend—the use of education data for determining creditworthiness under the guise of “innovation.”

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    Jul 16, 2019

    What Is “Credit”? AfterPay, Earnin’, and ISAs

    There’s good reason to think that some, if not all, ISAs involve a debt and are therefore “credit,” for various federal regulatory purposes. The most natural read of the statutes is that ISAs are credit and subject to the full panoply of federal consumer finance regulations. Certainly from a purposivist angle, ISAs are financing, and it’s hard to think that Congress was OK with discriminatory equity financing, but not discriminatory debt financing.

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    Jun 18, 2019

    Betsy DeVos Wants to Give a Free Pass to the Student Loan Company That Ripped Off 78,000 Servicemembers

    By Austin Evers and Seth Frotman | June 18, 2019 Last week, the U.S. Department of Education’s student lending arm, the Office of Federal Student Aid, radically changed the landscape of its planned billion-dollar contract to reshape student loan servicing in a move that tips the scales for Navient, one of the nation’s largest student […]

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  • Blogs
    May 22, 2019

    Student Loan Forgiveness Cannot Work Without a Right to a Payment History

    The Trump Administration has raised the stakes for tens of millions of borrowers, pulling down planned consumer protections while advancing a sweeping new proposal that will cause more than 37 million borrowers’ loans to change companies in the coming years. The following guest post from Persis Yu, Director of the Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project at the National Consumer Law Center, illustrates how loan transfers can lead to serious problems for borrowers pursuing…

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  • Blogs
    Apr 16, 2019

    Keeping America’s Promise

    For years, advocates, law enforcement, and regulators have been sounding the alarm on the impending Public Service Loan Forgiveness crisis. Millions of dedicated public servants have devoted their careers to serving their communities, based on the promise of the PSLF program. But now, as the first cohort of eligible borrowers are applying to have their loans forgiven, data shows that for many, that promise has been broken.

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    Apr 8, 2019

    It’s Time for More Cops on the Beat

    For the past two years, this country has seen huge rollbacks of protections for consumers—from attacks on servicemembers’ rights to rules that protect borrowers of color from discrimination. Each time we think we’ve hit rock bottom and start believing that it can’t get any worse, the Trump Administration pulls out a stronger shovel. It’s time for more cops on the beat.

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