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  • News Clips
    Oct 3, 2024

    Biden’s Student Debt Plan Paused Again After Previous Pause Expired

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  • News Clips
    Oct 3, 2024

    30 million student-loan borrowers waiting for Biden’s broader debt cancellation just got a lifeline in court

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  • News Clips
    Oct 3, 2024

    Biden’s student debt forgiveness regulation on hold again, after brief reprieve 

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  • Press Releases
    Oct 3, 2024

    Republican-Appointed Judge Spurns Missouri AG’s Attempt to Block Future Student Debt Relief in Georgia Court, Sends Case Back to Missouri

    The suit challenges the Biden-Harris Administration’s future plan to provide relief to tens of millions of struggling borrowers.

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  • Press Releases
    Oct 2, 2024

    New Data Reveals Economic Toll of Project 2025’s Attacks on Public Service Workers, Would Force Millions to Pay $250 Billion in Additional Student Loan Debt

    Right-wing Project 2025 will leave more than 3.6 million vital public service workers drowning in student debt.

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  • Reports
    Oct 2, 2024

    Project 2025 PSLF State-by-State Map

    This state-by-state map sheds light on the estimated financial toll of Project 2025’s proposal to eliminate PSLF and how it will saddle approximately 3.6 million public service workers with more than $250 billion in additional student loan debt.

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  • News Clips
    Oct 2, 2024

    The Self-Imposed October Surprise

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  • News Clips
    Oct 1, 2024

    The grace period for student loan payments is over. Here’s what you need to know

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  • News Clips
    Sep 26, 2024

    College Uncovered: The Borrowers’ Lament

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  • News Clips
    Sep 26, 2024

    The Student Loan ‘On-Ramp Period’ Is Ending. How It Will Affect You

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  • Press Releases
    Sep 26, 2024

    Missouri AG Flacks for MOHELA: Claims Company is Above the Law

    In an amicus curiae brief in AFT v. MOHELA, Missouri AG claims MOHELA can never be held accountable in federal court for cheating borrowers.

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  • Blogs
    Sep 26, 2024

    Obstructionist Lawsuits Have Thrown the Student Loan System into Chaos. We are Shedding Light on the Borrowers Paying the Price.

    Nearly 8 million student loan borrowers were enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) repayment plan in August 2024 when the 8th Circuit Court abruptly ripped it away from them. Here are just a few of the stories of financial harm and distress since.

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  • Press Releases
    Sep 26, 2024

    MOHELA Claims To Be Above The Law; AFT Claps Back In Latest Court Filing

    AFT motion rebuts MOHELA’s claims that it is immune from prosecution and warns the court that MOHELA violated federal contract.

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  • News Clips
    Sep 20, 2024

    Concerns over private student loans brought to U.S. Senate panel

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  • News Clips
    Sep 20, 2024

    Fresh Start program helping delinquent student loan borrowers end Sept. 30

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  • Press Releases
    Sep 19, 2024

    With Millions of Student Loan Borrowers in Limbo, 110+ Groups Urge ED to Extend Critical Borrower Protections

    The U.S. Education Department must ensure time spent in administrative forbearance counts toward PSLF and IDR relief, and to extend two critical programs set to expire on September 30: the “on-ramp” period to keep borrowers out of default and the “Fresh Start” program to help borrowers get out of default.

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  • News Clips
    Sep 18, 2024

    Back to School: Shedding Light on Risks and Harm in the Private Student Lending and Servicing Market

    The witnesses will be: Ms. Aissa Canchola Bañez, Policy Director, Student Borrower Protection Center; Dr. Beth Akers, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and Ms. Dalié Jiménez, Professor of Law and Director, Student Loan Law Initiative, University of California, Irvine School of Law.

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  • Testimony & Remarks
    Sep 17, 2024

    Testimony of Aissa Canchola Bañez Before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee

    See here to read Aissa Canchola Bañez’s September 17, 2024, testimony.

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  • Press Releases
    Sep 17, 2024

    As Senate Hearing Sets Stage for Federal Policymakers to Take Overdue Action to Protect the Millions With Private Student Loans, SBPC Releases New State-by-State Data

    MOHELA is once again under fire, this time for it’s growing role in private loan markets.

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  • News Clips
    Sep 13, 2024

    Navient Pays the Piper

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