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  • Letters & Memos
    May 7, 2025

    AFT and SBPC Letters to OIGs on Probe Corruption

    AFT and SBPC urge the Inspectors General for the ED and the CFPB to probe these agencies’ handling of their shared oversight responsibility over the $1.6 trillion federal student loan market.

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  • News Clips
    May 7, 2025

    Federal student loan repayments are due, again

    Segment featuring Mike Pierce, Student Borrower Protection Center

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  • News Clips
    May 7, 2025

    What to know about federal student loan collections starting

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  • News Clips
    May 7, 2025

    I have federal student debt. What Trump administration changes affect me?

    For instance: Aissa Canchola Bañez, policy director at the Student Borrower Protection Center, underscored that despite President Donald Trump’s executive order, PSLF eligibility has not changed. “Only an act of Congress can end this program or fundamentally change it in any way,” she added. “So keep making your payments, so you can stay on track toward that relief.”

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  • News Clips
    May 7, 2025

    195,000 Student Loan Borrowers Get Notices That Wages And Benefits Will Be Seized

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  • News Clips
    May 6, 2025

    Trump administration to resume collections on student loan borrowers in default

    “This could not have come at a worst time for millions of Americans,” said Aissa Canchola Bañez, Policy Director for the Student Borrower Protection Center, a nonprofit group that aims to reduce student debt. Those borrowers, she added, “are already finding themselves having to navigate such incredible economic uncertainty over the last few months.”

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  • Press Releases
    May 6, 2025

    Senate Democrats Spotlight Radical Effort to Decimate U.S. Department of Education in Forum, Condemn Chaos in Communities Across the Country

    Veteran and student loan borrower Tasha Berkhalter to warn lawmakers of risks to military families.

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  • Deep Dives
    May 6, 2025

    Deep Dive: House Reconciliation Bill Makes Paying for College More Expensive and Risky for Students and Working Families

    This SBPC Deep Dive is a preliminary economic analysis of the House Education & Workforce Committee’s legislation on student loan repayment.

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  • News Clips
    May 6, 2025

    Ask ABC7: Experts answer your questions about student loans

    Aissa Canchola Bañez, the policy director at the Student Borrower Protection Center, joined Eyewitness News to answer your questions.

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  • Testimony & Remarks
    May 5, 2025

    Tasha Berkhalter’s Testimony at Senator Murray’s Spotlight Forum, “Abandoning America’s Promise: The Real Cost of Dismantling the Department of Education”

    See here to read Tasha Berkhalter’s testimony from May 6, 2025.

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  • News Clips
    May 5, 2025

    Student loan borrowers struggle to pay, get answers as debt collections begin: “We’re kind of drowning”

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  • Press Releases
    May 5, 2025

    Hundreds of Democracy, Labor, and Civil Rights Organizations Warn Trump Education Officials: Do Not “Weaponize PSLF”

    New Trump rulemaking would undermine critical public services and aims to advance the Project 2025 agenda, stripping rights from working people with student debt.

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  • News Clips
    May 5, 2025

    The student-loan trend that’s ‘alarming’ lenders: Even borrowers with great credit scores are falling behind

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  • News Clips
    May 5, 2025

    A discussion of federal student loan collections resuming on May 5

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  • News Clips
    May 5, 2025

    Student Loan Wage Garnishment Resumes For Defaulted Borrowers After 5-Year Pause

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  • News Clips
    May 5, 2025

    Mayor Adams, Student Loan Benefits Company Summer Launch Partnership to Help Wipe out Estimated $360 Million in Student Loan Debt for 100,000 Public Servants

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  • News Clips
    May 5, 2025

    Trump administration restarts student loan collections for millions in default after years-long pause

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  • News Clips
    May 5, 2025

    Unconscionable’: Trump Ready to Garnish Wages for Indebted Student Loan Borrowers

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  • Letters & Memos
    May 2, 2025

    Coalition Comment Letter to U.S. Department of Education in Response to Intent to Establish Negotiated Rulemaking

    186 organizations representing millions crushed under the weight of student loan debt submitted a comment in response to ED’s notice of its intent to establish negotiated rulemaking aimed at overhauling the rules that protect people from unaffordable student loan debt.

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  • News Clips
    May 2, 2025

    Major Update For 8 Million Borrowers: GOP Plan Would Reshape Student Loan Forgiveness And Kill SAVE

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