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  • News Clips
    May 5, 2025

    Trump administration restarts student loan collections for millions in default after years-long pause

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  • News Clips
    May 5, 2025

    Unconscionable’: Trump Ready to Garnish Wages for Indebted Student Loan Borrowers

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  • Comments Letters & Memos
    May 2, 2025

    Coalition Comment Letter to U.S. Department of Education in Response to Intent to Establish Negotiated Rulemaking

    186 organizations representing millions crushed under the weight of student loan debt submitted a comment in response to ED’s notice of its intent to establish negotiated rulemaking aimed at overhauling the rules that protect people from unaffordable student loan debt.

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  • News Clips
    May 2, 2025

    Major Update For 8 Million Borrowers: GOP Plan Would Reshape Student Loan Forgiveness And Kill SAVE

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  • News Clips
    Apr 30, 2025

    Republicans Opt to Make Education an Upper-Class Privilege

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  • News Clips
    Apr 29, 2025

    What to know as the government begins collections on defaulted student debt

    “It’s totally reasonable that people would be scared and confused and overwhelmed by the prospect of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars a month that they don’t have,” says Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center.

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  • Letters & Memos
    Apr 29, 2025

    Preliminary Economic Analysis of Budget Reconciliation Proposal on Student Loan Repayment

    Ahead of the House Education and Workforce Committee’s mark up, Republican leaders on the committee released their draft budget reconciliation bill. In response, SBPC sent a letter to the Committee Chairman Tim Walberg and Ranking Member Bobby Scott warning of the dire economic effects posed by this legislation.

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  • Press Releases
    Apr 29, 2025

    House Education and Workforce Republicans Unveil Legislative Plans to Deliver Massive Tax Cuts to Billionaires on the Backs of Students and Families with Student Loan Debt

    New economic analysis projects current borrowers in IDR will pay thousands more per year, new proposal to drain at least $40 billion from U.S. economy in year one.

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  • Blogs
    Apr 29, 2025

    Voices Behind the Student Debt Crisis

    Read quotes from borrowers across the country on the need for affordable student debt payments and relief.

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  • Letters & Memos Testimony & Remarks
    Apr 29, 2025

    Oral Comment of Persis Yu Opposing Attempts to Gut IDR and Limit PSLF

    Read the full remarks of Persis Yu before ED.

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  • Press Releases
    Apr 29, 2025

    ADVISORY: Borrowers and Advocates to Demand Protections for Millions at Neg Reg as ED Moves to Gut Affordable Student Loan Payments

    Persis Yu, Deputy Executive Director and Managing Counsel for Student Borrower Protection Center, is scheduled to provide public comment during the hearing.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 29, 2025

    GOP lawmakers want to revamp student loans. Here’s what to know.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 29, 2025

    The new GOP plan for student-loan borrowers: longer repayment periods and fewer options for debt relief

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  • News Clips
    Apr 28, 2025

    House Republicans unveil higher education reform plans

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  • News Clips
    Apr 28, 2025

    Republicans propose massive overhaul of student loans, Pell Grants

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  • News Clips
    Apr 28, 2025

    Widely criticized student loan servicer MOHELA faces investigation by multiple state attorneys general

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  • News Clips
    Apr 25, 2025

    ‘It shouldn’t be this hard’: Students share college struggles amid looming U.S. education cuts

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  • Blogs
    Apr 25, 2025

    Eliminating Grad PLUS Loans Without Making Higher Education More Affordable Would Be a Disaster for Students and Borrowers

    Congressional Republicans want to make it harder for their own constituents to afford graduate education and compete in today’s job market.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 25, 2025

    Can the Government garnish my wages over defaulted student loans?

    Mike Pierce is the Executive Director for the Student Borrower Protection Center, a nonprofit that fights for people with student debt. InvestigateTV spoke with Pierce about concerns borrowers have related to wage garnishment.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 25, 2025

    What Happens If You Just Don’t Pay Your Federal Student Loans?

    You can get help from nonprofits like the Student Borrower Protection Center and the Institute of Student Loan Advisors; you can also find student-loan specialists at both the National Foundation for Credit Counseling and the Financial Counseling Association of America.

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