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  • News Clips
    May 19, 2025

    Student Loan Forgiveness Update: 96% Of Applications Still Pending As IDR And PSLF Backlog Hits 2 Million

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  • Press Releases
    May 16, 2025

    New Court Filing Reveals Backlog of Nearly 2 Million Student Loan Borrower Payment Plan Applications

    Borrowers stuck in months-long limbo continue to accrue interest and are denied credit toward loan cancellation while the Administration guts the agency that could help.

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  • News Clips
    May 15, 2025

    Pressley, Booker, Warren Unveil Bill to Suspend Garnishments for Student Loan Borrowers

    “Amidst unprecedented economic uncertainty and as millions of working families are struggling with the rising costs of everyday essentials, the Trump Administration’s calloused decision to unleash abusive and uncontrollable collection tools that have the power to take borrower’s hard earned wages without safeguards. Instead of helping the 5 million borrowers that have fallen into default and the millions more that are behind and now at risk of default later this year, this Administration…

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  • Press Releases
    May 14, 2025

    “Stealing the American Dream”: Borrowers, Experts Warn of Trump’s Scheme to Raise Costs, Block Opportunity for Students and Families

    New analysis shows 1-in-12 U.S. adults negatively affected by Trump education policies; state fact sheets highlight millions left behind.

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  • Fact Sheets
    May 14, 2025

    Statewide Fact Sheets: Higher Ed & Student Debt

    The data underscore how default has disastrous consequences for borrowers and their families. For many, default is a lifetime sentence, and America’s most vulnerable communities—older, low-income, borrowers with disabilities, and Black borrowers—are disproportionately impacted.

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  • Testimony & Remarks
    May 14, 2025

    Bonni Snider’s Testimony at Senator Warren’s Spotlight Forum, “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for American Families”

    See here to read Bonni Snider’s testimony from May 14, 2025.

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  • Testimony & Remarks
    May 14, 2025

    Bonnie Latreille’s Testimony at Senator Warren’s Spotlight Forum, “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for American Families”

    See here to read Bonnie Latreille’s testimony from May 14, 2025.

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  • Testimony & Remarks
    May 14, 2025

    Tiffany Aliche’s Testimony at Senator Warren’s Spotlight Forum, “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are Raising Education Costs for American Families”

    See here to read Tiffany Aliche’s May 14, 2025 testimony.

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  • News Clips
    May 13, 2025

    Student-loan borrowers in default could see Social Security benefits cut to $750 as debt collection resumes

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  • Fact Sheets
    May 12, 2025

    Fact Sheet: Student Debt Default Crisis By the Numbers

    The data underscore how default has disastrous consequences for borrowers and their families. For many, default is a lifetime sentence, and America’s most vulnerable communities—older, low-income, borrowers with disabilities, and Black borrowers—are disproportionately impacted.

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  • Press Releases
    May 12, 2025

    Watchdog Groups Call on CFPB Inspector General to Investigate DOGE Self-Enrichment Scheme

    The letter comes after recent reports revealed that a top DOGE official, Gavin Kliger, who was overseeing attempts to fire most staff at the CFPB, stood to directly financially benefit from the destruction he was causing.

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  • News Clips
    May 12, 2025

    Letitia James’ pro-consumer push could spark ‘legal shakedowns’ and boost greedy lawyers, businesses say

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  • Amicus Briefs
    May 9, 2025

    42 Legal Services Groups, Veterans Rights Organizations, and Consumer Watchdogs Tell Federal Court of Appeals: The Administration Must be Stopped From Illegally Dismantling the CFPB

    Amicus brief: the destruction of the CFPB would inflict immeasurable harm to financially vulnerable Americans and the broader U.S. economy.

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  • Press Releases
    May 9, 2025

    42 Legal Services Groups, Veterans Rights Organizations, and Consumer Watchdogs Tell Federal Court of Appeals: The Administration Must be Stopped From Illegally Dismantling the CFPB

    Amicus brief: the destruction of the CFPB would inflict immeasurable harm to financially vulnerable Americans and the broader U.S. economy.

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  • Amicus Briefs
    May 9, 2025

    Amicus Brief: The Destruction of the CFPB Would Inflict Immeasurable Harm to Financially Vulnerable Americans and the Broader U.S. Economy

    This brief says the destruction of the CFPB would inflict immeasurable harm to financially vulnerable Americans and the broader U.S. economy.

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  • Press Releases
    May 7, 2025

    Advocates Warn Watchdogs of Trump Scheme to Protect Corrupt Student Loan Giant MOHELA

    As right-wing lawmakers try to gut the student loan safety net and muzzle regulators, AFT and SBPC call on Inspectors General to probe corruption at ED and CFPB.

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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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