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  • Press Releases
    Apr 2, 2025

    As Bill Is Heard by Senate Committee, New Records Underline Urgent Need for Transparency of Maryland’s $332 Million Shadow Student Debt Market

    Read the latest Protect Borrowers press release.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 2, 2025

    A shady, shuttered tech bootcamp may be sneaking back online / And the watchdog agency that oversaw it is being dismantled.

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  • Press Releases
    Apr 1, 2025

    As CFPB Enforcement Folds, Predatory Tech Company Prehired Defies Government Order to Cease Operations and Continues Defrauding Students

    SBPC released the results of a months-long investigation into the tech company Prehired, exposing how the firm had resumed its scheme to push worthless credentials on students, paid for via its own predatory private student lending operation.

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  • Blogs
    Apr 1, 2025

    Same Fraud, New Name: Disgraced Prehired CEO Relaunches Predatory Company as “FastTrack”

    With the CFPB shuttered, advocates call on state regulators and Attorneys General to protect students and borrowers from the repeat offender.

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  • Investigations Letters & Memos
    Apr 1, 2025

    Predatory Tech Company Prehired Defies Government Order to Cease Operations and Continues Defrauding Students as “FastTrack”

    SBPC released the results of a months-long investigation into the tech company Prehired, exposing how the firm had resumed its scheme to push worthless credentials on students, paid for via its own predatory private student lending operation.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 1, 2025

    The Fired Student-Debt Relievers

    “What they’re trying to do is build a new market for Wall Street,” Mike Pierce, of the Student Borrower Protection Center, told me.

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  • Press Releases
    Mar 28, 2025

    In a Major Victory for Americans, Federal Court Blocks Trump, Musk, Vought Effort to Dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

    Preliminary injunction orders Trump Administration to reinstate CFPB student loan ombudsman and get CFPB back to work on behalf of consumers.

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  • News Clips
    Mar 28, 2025

    R.I.P. CFPB? What’s At Stake If the Watchdog Agency Goes Dark

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  • News Clips
    Mar 28, 2025

    More than 3 million seniors carry student loan debt. Here’s what they can do.

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  • News Clips
    Mar 28, 2025

    Income-driven student loan repayment plans have resumed. What to know

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  • News Clips
    Mar 28, 2025

    What Student Loan Protections Can We Lose if the CFPB Goes Away?

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  • Press Releases
    Mar 26, 2025

    As House Financial Services Committee Majority Lines Up Industry Witnesses to Bash CFPB, Consumer Advocates Issue Rap Sheet Highlighting More Than $3 Billion in Harm Caused by Corporate Repeat Offenders

    Seven repeat offenders pardoned by the Trump Administration have paid more than $7 billion for their illegal activities as a result of CFPB and other regulators.

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  • News Clips
    Mar 26, 2025

    Department of Education Reopens Income-Driven Repayment Plan Applications

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  • News Clips
    Mar 26, 2025

    Student-loan borrowers can apply for affordable payments once again — what borrowers need to know

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  • Press Releases
    Mar 25, 2025

    AFT v. ED Update: Under Pressure, ED Will Restore IDR Application Tomorrow But Will Not Immediately Resume IDR Paperwork Processing

    SBPC and AFT are still committed to ensuring borrowers access their right to affordable payments and debt relief amid million-borrower paperwork backlog.

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  • Blogs
    Mar 25, 2025

    Amidst Unprecedented Uncertainty, It Is Time for Student Loan Borrowers to Go On Offense

    The second Trump Admin has been filled with chaos and uncertainty for students and borrowers—but they can take critical steps to protect themselves and fight back.

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  • News Clips
    Mar 24, 2025

    US education department insiders warn student loan system at risk: ‘The gatekeepers are gone’

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  • Press Releases
    Mar 21, 2025

    Moving the Student Loan Program to SBA is Illegal, Unserious, and a Distraction

    If Donald Trump actually cared about lowering costs for working people across this country and not just throwing red meat to his base, he would shut the student loan system down.

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  • News Clips
    Mar 21, 2025

    With hundreds fewer workers, can the Federal Student Aid office still function?

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  • News Clips
    Mar 21, 2025

    Trump says student loans, special needs programs will be moved to new departments

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