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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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  • Press Releases
    Feb 1, 2024

    Navient Announces Plans to Terminate Student Loan Servicing Business Following High-Profile Scandals and Government Lawsuits

    Advocates welcome the fall of the former student loan giant and demand justice for borrowers cheated by Navient’s abuses.

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  • Press Releases
    Jan 31, 2024

    Advocates Blast House Higher Education Proposal That Rolls Back Biden Administration Efforts to Make Student Loan Payments Affordable and Provide Critical Relief to Millions

    Congress must reject efforts that will push students and families into the grips of private loan industry and exacerbate the student debt crisis.

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  • News Clips
    Jan 31, 2024

    Biden administration proposes banning ‘junk fees’ on college students’ bank account

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  • News Clips
    Jan 31, 2024

    New Student Loan Forgiveness Option Based On Hardship Gets A Boost

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  • News Clips
    Jan 31, 2024

    Colleges Caught in President Biden’s Campaign Against ‘Junk Fees’

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  • Press Releases
    Jan 31, 2024

    U.S. Department of Education to Reconvene Negotiators to Deliver Student Debt Relief

    After advocates, lawmakers and members of federal rulemaking panel urge Department of Education to hold a fourth negotiated rulemaking session to properly address student loan hardship.

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  • News Clips
    Jan 23, 2024

    Employers’ Use of TRAPs to Avoid Noncompete Scrutiny Prompts Regulatory and Legislative Action

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