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  • News Clips
    Apr 23, 2025

    Education Department to begin debt collection on student loans in default May 5

    “This is cruel, unnecessary and will further fan the flames of economic chaos for working families across this country,” said Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 23, 2025

    Collection of defaulted student loans to restart May 5 for first time since pandemic

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  • News Clips
    Apr 22, 2025

    Department of Education to resume collections on defaulted student loans

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  • News Clips
    Apr 22, 2025

    5M Student Loan Borrowers Facing Mandatory Collections: See VA Impacts

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  • News Clips
    Apr 22, 2025

    Federal student loan collections resume next month

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  • News Clips
    Apr 22, 2025

    What student loan borrowers need to know about ‘involuntary collections’

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  • News Clips
    Apr 22, 2025

    Trump will revive penalties for student-loan borrowers who are behind on payments. Here’s what to expect.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 22, 2025

    CFPB Plans To Deprioritize Protecting Student Borrowers, Consumers With Medical Debt

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  • News Clips
    Apr 22, 2025

    Education Department Restarting Loan Collections for First Time Since 2020

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  • Press Releases
    Apr 21, 2025

    Advocates Slam Trump Administration for Throwing Millions of Americans With Student Debt Into the Jaws of Government Collections Machine

    The Trump Admin announced plans to begin subjecting millions of Americans in default to mandatory collections, including wage garnishment, tax refund and Social Security benefit offsets.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 21, 2025

    Student loans in default to be referred to debt col­lection, Education De­partment says

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  • News Clips
    Apr 19, 2025

    How Trump has wiped out the teams that protect student borrowers

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  • Press Releases
    Apr 18, 2025

    Federal Judge Halts Musk Minion From Running an Illegal and Reckless CFPB Staff Purge

    Court proceedings reveal DOGE member Gavin Kliger berated workers through all-nighter in mad rush to gut the consumer watchdog.

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  • Press Releases
    Apr 17, 2025

    Trump Administration Defies Federal Appeals Court, Attempts Illegal Mass Firing at Federal Consumer Watchdog

    Attempted staff purge at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau follows Trump’s sweeping midnight pullback of supervision and enforcement; experts project surge in financial fraud.

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  • Press Releases
    Apr 17, 2025

    Community Roundtable: Kern County Families to Discuss the Impact of Proposed Budget Cuts on Education Access

    Advisory for Wednesday, April 23.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 17, 2025

    The CFPB says it will ‘deprioritize’ protecting student borrowers, people with medical debt

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  • News Clips
    Apr 16, 2025

    A new internal memo from the CFPB says it will ‘deprioritize’ its student-loan oversight in Trump’s latest move to overhaul the consumer watchdog

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  • News Clips
    Apr 13, 2025

    Lacking clarity, student loan borrowers face dangerous consequences

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  • Blogs
    Apr 8, 2025

    Trump Trashes the Economy and Leaves Americans Vulnerable: Two Disastrous Months of Trump’s CFPB

    What Trump’s CFPB has and hasn’t done in the first two months of Russell Vought’s control of the Bureau. Vought has so far illegally fired staff, halted the Bureau’s critical work, and pardoned corporate lawmakers.

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  • News Clips
    Apr 3, 2025

    Trump administration eyes changes to student-loan repayment plans

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