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  • Nov 21, 2023

    Pay Thousands to Quit Your Job? Some Employers Say So.

    The line between recouping costs and penalizing workers for leaving can be blurry, and companies have increasingly taken advantage of that ambiguity.

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  • Blogs
    Nov 15, 2023

    Consumer Protection Agencies Must Ensure Student Loan Companies Inform Borrowers About Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity to Become Debt-Free

    There is a looming deadline that is fast approaching and has not been properly conveyed to borrowers: the opportunity for debt cancellation through the Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Account Adjustment.

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  • Letters & Memos
    Nov 15, 2023

    Material Omissions Related to the Income-Driven Repayment Account Adjustment

    This memo details the authorities held by federal and state consumer protection agencies that can be used to address student loan servicers that are blocking millions of federal student loan borrowers from receiving debt cancellation granted by Congress.

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  • News Clips
    Nov 13, 2023

    A loophole is helping some parents lower their student loan payments

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  • News Clips
    Nov 11, 2023

    How Millions of Borrowers Got $127 Billion in Student Loans Canceled

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  • News Clips
    Nov 10, 2023

    Soothe a doc: AI won’t replace you

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  • News Clips
    Nov 2, 2023

    Student loan repayments plagued by errors, bad customer service

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  • News Clips
    Oct 31, 2023

    Student Loan Errors Prompt $7.2M Penalty

    “It is shocking the scale of the failures that they found,” said Persis Yu, deputy executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, an advocacy group. “But on the other hand, if you talk to any borrower, it completely is consistent with the experiences they are facing right now. I wonder if this is just the beginning, because we know that this is not the entire universe of problems that borrowers are facing.”

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  • News Clips
    Oct 31, 2023

    Here’s who could benefit under the Biden administration’s new student debt relief proposal

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  • News Clips
    Oct 31, 2023

    MOHELA failed to send bills on time to 2.5 million borrowers

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  • News Clips
    Oct 30, 2023

    MOHELA made borrowers delinquent. Now the student loan servicer is being penalized

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  • Press Releases
    Oct 30, 2023

    U.S. Department of Education Finds Widespread Servicing Failures Across the Student Loan System, Advocates Urge Follow-On Action By Law Enforcement

    Among the Department’s findings and actions, is a plan to withhold $7.2 million in payment to MOHELA meant to cover servicing it never performed.

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  • News Clips
    Oct 26, 2023

    Serious Ethics Issue’: Wealthy Friend Forgave Up to $267K of Luxury RV Loan for Clarence Thomas

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  • Blogs
    Oct 26, 2023

    Double Consolidation: For a Limited Time a Way for Parent PLUS Borrowers to Get on the SAVE Plan

    One little-known option for Parent PLUS borrowers to have access to all of the income-driven repayment (IDR) plans—including the new SAVE plan—is something called double consolidation.

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  • Oct 19, 2023

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  • News Clips
    Oct 19, 2023

    ‘Restrictive’ Pilot, Trucker Contracts Spur Push for Crackdown

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  • Press Releases
    Oct 18, 2023

    ADVISORY: Today at 1 PM ET, Scholars to Discuss and Release New Student Debt Research

    At a virtual event, SBPC and SLLI release a new report projecting widespread distress among California student loan borrowers in Latino/a communities.

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  • News Clips
    Oct 16, 2023

    More Than 400,000 Student Loan Borrowers Had Wrong Monthly Payments

    “Unfortunately, the bigger issue is that it’s hard to get those problems resolved right now if you can’t get someone on the phone,” said Persis Yu, deputy executive director at the Student Borrower Protection Center, referring to the notoriously long wait times for loan servicer representatives.

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  • News Clips
    Oct 13, 2023

    Student loan borrowers hit snags as payments resume: ‘It’s a challenging environment,’ head of loan servicer group says

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  • News Clips
    Oct 12, 2023

    It’s a TRAP! Labor Board Seeks to Prohibit Use of Training Repayment Agreement Provisions

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