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    Apr 29, 2022

    She Accused Her Ex-Husband of Abuse. She’s Still Stuck With His Student Loans.

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    Apr 27, 2022

    Student loan defaults are a big barrier to prison education. The government is offering new help.

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    Apr 7, 2022

    The Student Loan Pause Has Been Extended Until the End of August

    NPR’s Leila Fadel talks to Mike Pierce of the Student Borrower Protection Center, about plans to extend the student loan payment pause and a reset for roughly 7 million borrowers who are in default.

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    Apr 1, 2022

    Exclusive: How the most affordable student loan program failed low-income borrowers

    “That is one of the most concerning things that you’ve highlighted because the people with the $0 payments are the folks in financial distress,” says Persis Yu of the Student Borrower Protection Center. “If that payment is not tracked adequately, it means that they’re in debt that they don’t owe. And to build a system in which we utterly fail the lowest income borrowers so explicitly is just inexcusable.”

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    Apr 1, 2022

    How the pandemic unfairly saddled low-income California college students with debt

    Voice piece by Jonathan Glater, Charlie Eaton, and Laura Hamilton

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    Mar 11, 2022

    Consumers take issue with Aidvantage’s management of federal student loans

    “We’re very concerned,” said Persis Yu, policy director and managing counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center, an advocacy group. “The company is taking over a large portfolio of student loans at a time when borrowers are especially vulnerable. And there’s a real question about whether they’re prepared.”

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    Mar 2, 2022

    The US Government Pushed Hundreds of Married Couples Into Disastrous Student Loans

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    Jan 22, 2022

    Millions of Student Loan Borrowers Could Wipe Out Debts But ‘Predatory’ Firms ‘Lied and Continued to Collect Payments’

    The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) released a report on Thursday, January 20 identifying more than 2.6 million people who collectively owe around $50 billion.

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    Jan 20, 2022

    $50 Billion of Student Debt Could Be Entitled to Automatic Cancellation in Bankruptcy But Borrowers May Not Know About It

    “The SBPC, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy group for student borrowers, estimates that a total of about $50 billion of such loans are out there, and they may be as easy to cancel in bankruptcy as credit card debt or other consumer loans.”

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    Jan 20, 2022

    2.6 Million Student-Loan Borrowers Could Get Rid of Their Debt by Declaring Bankruptcy — But Major Companies are Blocking That

    “On Thursday, the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) released a report that found 2.6 million borrowers with private student debt could be eligible for as much as $50 billion in loan cancellation through bankruptcy.”

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