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  • News Clips
    Feb 28, 2024

    3 top Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation into a major student-loan company, accusing it of ‘loan forgiveness mismanagement’ for millions of borrowers

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  • News Clips
    Feb 28, 2024

    Biden Just Erased $1.2B in Student Loans. Yours Could Be Next

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  • Reports
    Feb 28, 2024

    The MOHELA Papers: The Rise of A Student Loan Servicing Giant and the Fall of the Student Loan System

    This report is the result of a years-long investigation into industry mismanagement of the student loan system—exposing a scheme to deny service to millions of working people with student debt by the student loan company responsible for handling the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

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  • Press Releases
    Feb 28, 2024

    Student Loan Giant Caught Deploying “Call Deflection” Scheme, Jeopardizing Relief for Millions

    Blockbuster investigation uncovers “The MOHELA Papers,” never-before-seen internal records show company plans to deny service as servicing failures affect at least four-in-ten MOHELA customers.

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  • Press Releases
    Feb 27, 2024

    Advocates Urge Congress to Pump the Brakes on Workforce Pell Act, Urge Policymakers to Reject Deal That Will Harm Vulnerable Students, Borrowers and Jeopardize PSLF

    Proposal would open up the Pell Grant program to extra-short-term workforce training programs and give the green light to some of the most shady and predatory for-profit schools and OPMs to pad their bottom lines.

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  • Blogs
    Feb 27, 2024

    Congress’s Most Recent Effort to Further Expand Short-Term Pell Hurts Vulnerable Students, Jeopardizes PSLF and Other Biden Efforts to Support Struggling Student Loan Borrowers

    The Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act will undercut Public Service Loan Forgiveness and the Biden Administration’s new SAVE Plan.

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  • News Clips
    Feb 22, 2024

    After student loan forgiveness, the Education Dept. is sending some borrowers refunds. What to know

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  • Press Releases
    Feb 21, 2024

    President Biden Continues to Deliver by Cancelling Student Debt

    Student Borrower Protection Center applauds progress made and urges Administration to continue making student debt cancellation a reality for millions.

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  • News Clips
    Feb 19, 2024

    A mom with $50,000 in student debt ‘can’t break free’ from her ex-husband because she’s still stuck paying off his loan balance

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  • News Clips
    Feb 15, 2024

    Biden announces MORE Americans could have their student loans forgiven: Here’s who would qualify as the president moves to add to the $136.6 billion in debt he has already wiped

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  • News Clips
    Feb 15, 2024

    Online course provider 2U questions future amid massive debt

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  • Press Releases
    Feb 15, 2024

    U.S. Department of Education Releases Proposal to Deliver Student Debt Relief to Borrowers Experiencing Hardship

    Advocates applaud the potential pathway to student debt relief for millions of borrowers and call on President Biden to “finish the job.”

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  • Blogs
    Feb 13, 2024

    Students Should Not Bear the Financial Burden when Corporate Greed Shatters the Online Higher Education Market

    Researchers offer path for the Biden Administration to address hardship posed by student debt.

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  • Press Releases
    Feb 12, 2024

    Advocates Celebrate First-of-its-Kind Class Action Settlement in Bodor v. Maximus

    This consumer protection lawsuit opens a new front in the fight to demand justice for student loan borrowers.

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  • News Clips
    Feb 5, 2024

    Navient Outsources Servicing Of 2.7 Million Student Loans To Its Rival MOHELA—Is Your Loan Affected?

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  • News Clips
    Feb 4, 2024

    Student loan ‘bill of rights’ legislation seeks to put guardrails on process

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  • News Clips
    Feb 3, 2024

    Student Loans and Taxes: Here’s What to Know

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  • News Clips
    Feb 2, 2024

    Millions of student loan accounts to transfer servicing companies

    Persis Yu, deputy executive director and managing counsel of the Student Borrower Protection Center, told Forbes that “regulators and lawmakers must take the risks posed by this giant firm seriously and immediately supervise the transfer of these accounts from Navient — ensuring that MOHELA’s disastrous, hours-long call wait times, sloppy billing practices, and paperwork backlogs do not lead to the collapse of the student loan system.”

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  • News Clips
    Feb 1, 2024

    Huge Student Loan Servicing Shakeup Will Impact Millions Of Borrowers

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  • Blogs
    Feb 1, 2024

    Bill Masquerading as the Solution to Skyrocketing College Costs and Student Debt Crisis Is Latest Attack on Working Families

    Measure should be seen as the “‘Foxx in Sheep’s Clothing” that it is.

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