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  • News Clips
    Jan 29, 2019

    Paying for college just got a lot scarier. N.J. needs student loan rep

    This past week, thousands of New Jersey parents proudly accompanied their children off to college. Sadly, Seth Frotman will not be along for the ride home after they graduate.

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  • News Clips
    Jan 27, 2019

    Women, older adults facing student loan debt in record numbers

    The number of people ages 60 and above with college debt in New York has risen 44 percent between 2012 and 2017.

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  • Press Releases
    Jan 24, 2019

    New Analysis Reveals New Yorkers Suffer Under the Weight of Historic Levels of Student Debt, Empire State Must Take Action to Protect Borrowers

    Today, the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) and New Yorkers for Responsible Lending (NYRL) released a new analysis demonstrating the scale of the student debt crisis in New York. This new analysis of government data shows that more than one-in-five New York consumers now owe student loan debt.

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  • News Clips
    Jan 23, 2019

    Nearly half of all young adults in Colorado owe money on a student loan, study examining state’s $26 billion ledger shows

    More than 700,000 Coloradans, from all corners of the state, are paying off student loans. And more than 20,000 rural student loan borrowers are severely delinquent, study finds.

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  • Press Releases
    Jan 22, 2019

    New Analysis Reveals More than 730,000 Coloradans Suffer Under the Weight of Historic Levels of Student Debt, State Must Take Action to Protect Borrowers

    Today, the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) and New Era Colorado released new analysis demonstrating the scale of the student debt crisis in Colorado. A new analysis of government data shows that more than 1-in-4 middle-aged Coloradans now owe student loan debt.

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  • Press Releases
    Jan 16, 2019

    With the Explosion of Student Debt Across the Commonwealth, Virginia Must Take Action to Protect Borrowers

    Today, the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), Virginia Poverty Law Center (VPLC), Virginia21, and Progress Virginia released new analysis demonstrating the scale of the student debt crisis in Virginia. A new analysis of government data shows that 1-in-6 Virginians now owe student debt. For the first time, more than one million Virginians owe money on a student loan. This analysis makes a clear and compelling case for Virginia to take action to protect…

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  • News Clips
    Jan 15, 2019

    Operation ‘Game of Loans’ nets more than $172,000 for Oregon students duped by scammers

    “Winter is coming for debt relief scams that prey on hardworking Americans struggling to pay back their student loans,” Maureen K. Ohlhausen, the agency’s acting chair, said in a statement.

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  • Blogs
    Jan 10, 2019

    Lawyers and Student Debt

    Readers of this blog will not be surprised at the sheer number of Americans who are burdened by student debt—more than 44 million—or the jaw-dropping aggregate debt load that easily tops $1.4 trillion dollars. Nor will readers be surprised that borrowers are struggling under the weight of that debt. What might be surprising, however, is that borrowers do not see their student loan problems as legal problems.

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  • Blogs
    Jan 2, 2019

    Demanding Justice in the Bluegrass State

    Student Borrower Protection Center partnered with the Kentucky Equal Justice Center (KEJC) to support Attorney General Beshear’s fight to protect student loan borrowers.

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  • Amicus Briefs
    Jan 2, 2019

    Amicus Brief: Kentucky Equal Justice Center and SBPC Support AG Beshear’s Fight to Protect Student Loan Borrowers

    SBPC partnered with KEJC to support Attorney General Beshear’s fight to protect student loan borrowers.

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  • Dec 21, 2018

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  • Press Releases
    Dec 20, 2018

    AFT and SBPC Launch Joint Investigation into Mismanagement and Industry Abuses in Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

    The American Federation of Teachers and the Student Borrower Protection Center launched a joint investigation into allegations of rampant mismanagement and industry abuses undermining the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.

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  • Reports
    Dec 19, 2018

    Keeping the Promise of Public Service Loan Forgiveness

    This report details the SBPC and the American Federation of Teacher’s joint investigation into allegations of rampant mismanagement and industry abuses undermining the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.

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  • FOIAs
    Dec 19, 2018

    PSLF Investigation FOIA

    This compendium includes the specific individual Freedom of Information Act and state open records requests made by AFT and SBPC to support their joint investigation into the administration of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

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  • Blogs
    Dec 13, 2018

    Why is the Department of Education Dragging its Feet on Debt Relief for Disabled Veterans?

    Hundreds of thousands of student borrowers, including 42,000 veterans, qualify to have their student loans cancelled because of a total and permanent disability (TPD). Yet few eligible borrowers take advantage of this benefit, in part because they have to actually ask for it. The Department of Education (ED) knows who these disabled borrowers are and could automatically discharge their loans today, but it has refused to do so even in the face of…

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  • Reports
    Dec 11, 2018

    A Year Without Action: An Analysis of Borrower Complaints

    This report documents the widespread abuses across the student loan industry, as described by more than 13,000 student loan borrowers who submitted complaints to the federal CFPB between September 1, 2017 and December 11, 2018.

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  • Press Releases
    Dec 11, 2018

    Student Loan Borrowers Fall Prey to Widespread Industry Abuses, Nationwide Analysis of Consumer Complaints Finds

    Today, the Student Borrower Protection Center released a new report documenting widespread abuses across the student loan industry, as described by more than 13,000 student loan borrowers who submitted complaints to the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) last year.

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  • Blogs
    Nov 30, 2018

    A New Foundation of Scholarship to Protect Borrowers

    This week, we announced a new partnership between the University of California, Irvine School of Law and SBPC. Our project, the Student Loan Law Initiative, is a first-of-its kind collaboration between scholars and advocates to bring an end to the student debt crisis by creating a new foundation of legal scholarship that works for borrowers.

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  • Press Releases
    Nov 28, 2018

    Former CFPB Student Loan Watchdog Launches New Organization to Protect Student Borrowers

    Former CFPB Student Loan Watchdog Launches New Organization to Protect Student Borrowers. Student Borrower Protection Center to Lead Nationwide Effort to End the Student Debt Crisis, Empowering Policymakers and Advocates to Take Action; Announces First Series of Initiatives

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  • Blogs
    Nov 28, 2018

    It’s Time to Fight Back

    In the three minutes it takes you to read this blog, another six student loan borrowers will needlessly default on a student loan. These defaults will destroy their credit and jeopardize their financial future. It may even cost them their job.

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