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175+ Organizations Send Letter to President Biden Urging Swift Action to Enact New Student Debt Cancellation Plan Immediately

Groups applaud President Biden for announcing plans to enact a new student debt relief plan under the Higher Education Act in response to unjust SCOTUS ruling and urge him to deliver it quickly.

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Advocacy, Memos/Issue Briefs

Delivering Student Debt Relief Remains Popular Politics

Using popular polling and analysis, this memo makes the political case for action in the face of the unjust ruling blocking the President’s plan to use emergency powers to cancel student debt.

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Advocacy, Letters

Letter Formally Calls for Justice Alito to Recuse Himself from the Supreme Court Cases Biden v. Nebraska and U.S. Department of Education v. Brown

In a letter, the Student Borrower Protection Center formally calls on Justice Alito to recuse himself from Biden v. Nebraska and U.S. Department of Education v. Brown following his well-documented financial entanglement with billionaire investor Paul Singer. Prior to the decisions in these cases, new reporting from ProPublica highlighted that Justice Alito failed to disclose private air travel, accommodations, and entertainment worth tens of thousands of dollars paid for by Mr. Singer. Mr.…

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Advocacy, Letters

Letter Calling on the FDIC and North Carolina State Agencies to Scrutinize a Proposed Partnership Between First Carolina Bank and BM Technologies

In a letter, SBPC and US PIRG call on the FDIC and North Carolina regulators to intervene in a proposed “Deposit Processing Services Agreement” between First Carolina Bank and BM Technologies.

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Advocacy, Letters

260+ Organizations Urge Congress to Reject Efforts to Attack Student Loan Borrowers through the CRA

261 organizations send a letter calling on members of Congress to reject Republican efforts to use the CRA to reverse the federal student loan payment pause and block President Biden’s debt relief plan.

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Advocacy, Letters

Letter to the University of California on Completing the Work of Protecting Students from Predatory Online Programs

The SBPC sends a letter applauding the University of California’s recent decision to ban fully online degrees, while urging it to fully protect students from predatory online program managers by also banning fully online non-degree programs.

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Advocacy, Letters

Letter in Response to the Department of Education’s Request for Information Regarding Higher Education Act Pooled Evaluation

SBPC urges ED to conduct long-overdue scrutiny of the student loan system, study the effects of debt on borrowers’ lives, and provide basic but unknown facts about federal student lending.

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Advocacy, Memos/Issue Briefs

Defaulted Borrowers Must Be Included in the Income-Driven Repayment Account Adjustment

This memo urges the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to reconsider its exclusion of periods of time in default from the one-time Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Account Adjustment, which ED announced as a remedy for borrowers who have been steered into forbearance or otherwise knocked off course from IDR cancellation.

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Advocacy, Letters

Letter to the CFPB on the Supervision of Accenture

In a letter, the Student Borrower Protection Center calls on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to wield authorities already at its disposal to initiate long-overdue supervision of Accenture Federal Services.

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Advocacy, Letters

Letter to the Department of Education Calling for Accountability Following Accenture’s Communication Failure Impacting 9 Million Borrowers

SBPC calls on ED to hold Accenture Federal Services accountable for sending inaccurate communications to millions of borrowers about their applications for student debt relief.

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175+ Organizations Send Letter to President Biden Urging Swift Action to Enact New Student Debt Cancellation Plan Immediately

Delivering Student Debt Relief Remains Popular Politics

Letter Formally Calls for Justice Alito to Recuse Himself from the Supreme Court Cases Biden v. Nebraska and U.S. Department of Education v. Brown

Letter Calling on the FDIC and North Carolina State Agencies to Scrutinize a Proposed Partnership Between First Carolina Bank and BM Technologies

260+ Organizations Urge Congress to Reject Efforts to Attack Student Loan Borrowers through the CRA

Letter to the University of California on Completing the Work of Protecting Students from Predatory Online Programs

Letter in Response to the Department of Education’s Request for Information Regarding Higher Education Act Pooled Evaluation

Defaulted Borrowers Must Be Included in the Income-Driven Repayment Account Adjustment

Letter to the CFPB on the Supervision of Accenture

Letter to the Department of Education Calling for Accountability Following Accenture’s Communication Failure Impacting 9 Million Borrowers