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  • News Clips
    Jul 22, 2025

    Nearly Half a Million Student Loan Repayment Plans at Risk: Report

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  • News Clips
    Jul 21, 2025

    Department Of Education Suspends Student Loan Forgiveness Under IBR

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  • Blogs
    Jul 18, 2025

    What Students and Borrowers Need to Know Now that President Trump’s “One Big Terrible Bill” is Law

    President Trump signed the “One Big Terrible Bill” into law, making over $300 billion cuts to critical higher ed and financial aid programs, raising costs and making the system harder to navigate. This blog helps answer some questions students and borrowers are asking right now.

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  • News Clips
    Jul 18, 2025

    460K student loan borrowers to be denied repayment plan

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  • News Clips
    Jul 18, 2025

    Trump’s New Attack On Colleges Quietly Slid Under The Radar — And Many Are In For An Unpleasant Surprise

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  • News Clips
    Jul 16, 2025

    Student Loan Repayments Are About to Look Very Different

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  • Press Releases
    Jul 15, 2025

    Advocates Applaud Senate Effort to Hold Secretary McMahon Accountable for Burying Working Families with Student Debt in $27 Billion Unnecessary Interest Charges

    As inflation spikes, SBPC unveils a new state map highlighting how much the Trump Administration’s decision to resume interest will cost working families across each state.

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  • Letters & Memos
    Jul 15, 2025

    Letter to House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform and Antitrust on “Bankruptcy Law: Overview and Legislative Reforms”

    This letter discusses the urgent need to reform our bankruptcy system and shine a spotlight on how our bankruptcy system unjustly fails to protect millions of student loan borrowers.

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  • News Clips
    Jul 15, 2025

    Interest will start accruing again on Aug. 1 for student loan borrowers on the SAVE plan

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  • News Clips
    Jul 15, 2025

    Senators Push Back On Education Department Over SAVE Interest

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  • News Clips
    Jul 11, 2025

    How Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” affects student loans

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  • News Clips
    Jul 11, 2025

    Trump Rules Revoking Student Loan Forgiveness Advance

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  • Blogs
    Jul 10, 2025

    Sham PSLF Neg Reg: Harmful, Horrific, and Illegal

    ED held a Neg Reg session to codify Trump’s March executive order calling on ED to limit PSLF eligibility for public service workers employed at organizations or state/local governments doing work that conflicts with the Administration’s right-wing agenda. Amy Czulada was in the room—read her firsthand account.

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  • News Clips
    Jul 10, 2025

    Maddow Blog | Student loan borrowers have several new reasons to object to the Republican agenda

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  • Blogs
    Jul 9, 2025

    Pell Grants for Diploma Mills? The Republican Budget Bill Could Bankroll Some of the Shadiest Short-Term Training Programs

    Since the beginning of the second Trump Administration, the EdTech industry has been conspicuously silent as its college and university clients face escalating financial and ideological attacks. One reason for this deafening silence could be the industry’s anticipation of supercharged access to federal education funds now that the Republican-controlled Congress has passed its massive budget reconciliation bill.

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  • News Clips
    Jul 9, 2025

    How Trump Wants to Reshape a Major Student Loan Forgiveness Program—and Who Could Be Impacted

    “If the proposed changes take effect, the Secretary of Education will be able to disqualify millions of borrowers from PSLF as retribution for their employers’ actions, even if those actions are legal,” Winston Berkman-Breen, legal director at the Student Borrower Protection Center, a nonprofit advocating for student loan forgiveness, wrote in a statement to TIME.

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  • Press Releases
    Jul 9, 2025

    Trump Administration to Restart Student Loan Interest Charges for Nearly 8 Million Borrowers, Borrowers Will Face More than $3500 Per Year in New Charges

    New analysis of Trump policy projects borrowers will pay $27 billion in unnecessary interest charges per year as millions remain unable to access legal rights to affordable loan payments.

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  • Letters & Memos
    Jul 9, 2025

    Memo: More Broken Promises to Working Families with Student Debt

    ED Secretary McMahon instructed student loan companies to begin charging interest to nearly 8 million student loan borrowers trapped in the SAVE forbearance. This memo analyzes the financial harm the Trump Admin will cause these borrowers and the broader economy as a result.

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  • News Clips
    Jul 9, 2025

    8 million student loan borrowers are in for a jarring surprise August 1 as Trump admin restarts mandated interest payments

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  • News Clips
    Jul 9, 2025

    Millions Of Student Loan Borrowers Could Face $3,500 More Per Year In Interest—Here’s Why

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