Letters & Memos

May 2, 2022

Advocates Sound Alarm on Industry’s Implementation of Changes to IDR

The SBPC, National Consumer Law Center, Student Debt Crisis Center, and Center for Responsible Lending wrote to the Education Finance Council, National Council of Higher Education Resources, and Student Loan Servicing Alliance regarding recently announced to income-driven repayment.

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Letters & Memos

May 1, 2022

Memo: Transcript and diploma withholding

States have an opportunity to ban transcript and diploma withholding at academic institutions, allowing students to access documentation of their earned credits and move forward with their educations and careers.

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Letters & Memos

Apr 22, 2022

Borrower Voices on the Incomplete Promise of Relief through IDR: Recertification

This memo lays out how unwieldy Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) requirements such as annual recertification contribute to blocking borrowers from accessing relief.

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Letters & Memos

Apr 11, 2022

Advocates Call on CFPB to Eliminate the Junk Fees Harming Students

SBPC and the U.S. PIRG Education Fund call on the CFPB to use its broad authorities over enforcement, supervision, and regulation in the consumer financial services marketplace to investigate and eradicate junk fees.

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Apr 6, 2022

Older Borrower Voices on the Incomplete Promise of Relief through IDR

This memo highlights how an Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) fix will only provide relief to older borrowers with decades-old loans if it provides credit towards relief for time in default, forbearance, and deferment.

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Letters & Memos

Mar 31, 2022

Purdue Must Stop Illegally Profiting at Students’ Expense—or Risk Losing its Access to the Federal Financial Faucet

In a letter to the Department of Education, the SBPC exposes how Purdue University’s notorious “Back-A-Boiler” private student loan program puts students at risk and flagrantly violates the law.

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Letters & Memos

Mar 30, 2022

PHEAA Borrower Voices on the Incomplete Promise of Relief through IDR

This memo details how borrowers such as those whose loans have been serviced by the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), also known as AES and FedLoan Servicing, will still be left behind if fixes to Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) do not provide credit towards loan forgiveness for borrowers’ time in default, forbearance, and deferment.

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Letters & Memos

Mar 2, 2022

Nelnet Borrower Voices on the Incomplete Promise of Relief through IDR

This memo describes how borrowers whose loans are serviced by Nelnet have suffered from the industry’s harmful practices, in particular when it comes to Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) options.

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Feb 18, 2022

One Door Closes & Others Remain: Institutional Loans and the 90/10 Formula

In connection with the second session of ED’s negotiated rulemaking on the 90/10 rule and Institutional and Programmatic Eligibility, the Center for Responsible Lending, and the SBPC sent a memo to ED warning about the risks of counting institutional loans a revenue.

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Letters & Memos

Dec 8, 2021

More Than 200 Organizations Urge President Biden to Delay Restarting Student Loan Payments

In a letter to President Biden, the SBPC and over 200 organizations call on the administration to extend the pause on student loan payments scheduled to resume for millions of borrowers on January 31, 2022.

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Letters & Memos

Advocates Sound Alarm on Industry’s Implementation of Changes to IDR

Memo: Transcript and diploma withholding

Borrower Voices on the Incomplete Promise of Relief through IDR: Recertification

Advocates Call on CFPB to Eliminate the Junk Fees Harming Students

Older Borrower Voices on the Incomplete Promise of Relief through IDR

Purdue Must Stop Illegally Profiting at Students’ Expense—or Risk Losing its Access to the Federal Financial Faucet

PHEAA Borrower Voices on the Incomplete Promise of Relief through IDR

Nelnet Borrower Voices on the Incomplete Promise of Relief through IDR

One Door Closes & Others Remain: Institutional Loans and the 90/10 Formula

More Than 200 Organizations Urge President Biden to Delay Restarting Student Loan Payments

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