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October 18, 2022
Good news: The online application for the Biden Administration’s student debt cancellation is now officially open! And the application is fast and easy–you don’t need to submit any documents or […]
Continue Reading →Explosive New Evidence of Mismanagement of Student Loan Program Shows Need for IDR Waiver
April 01, 2022
By Abby Shafroth and Persis Yu Earlier today, an NPR investigative report revealed sweeping problems plaguing a federal student loan program intended to provide borrowers affordable monthly payments and loan forgiveness after […]
Continue Reading →Dep’t of Education Takes First Step To Restore Borrower Defense Relief–But Much More Needs to Be Done
March 19, 2021
Yesterday, the Department announced an important first step toward fixing the badly broken borrower defense program by rescinding the deeply flawed and unsupported “partial relief” policy adopted by former Secretary […]
Continue Reading →More Dream Center Students Can Now Get Closed School Discharges
February 25, 2020
By: Senya Merchant and Alex Elson of the National Student Legal Defense Network (Student Defense) This post originally appeared as an article on defendstudents.org and has been edited into a […]
Continue Reading →Top 10 Ways New Rules on Borrower Defense, School Closures, and Arbitration are Worse for Borrowers
September 23, 2019
Today, the U.S. Department of Education officially published new rules stripping away protections put in place by the Obama administration in what is often called the “borrower defense rule.” As […]
Continue Reading →Lawsuit Calls on Department of Education to Provide Relief to Students Whose Schools Closed
December 03, 2018
By Margaret Mattes Tens of thousands of student borrowers unable to complete their educations at the approximately 1473 postsecondary schools or campuses that closed between November 2013 and November 2015 […]
Continue Reading →Now in Effect: Rules on Student Loan Relief for School Closures and Misconduct, and Limits on Forced Arbitration
October 25, 2018
This month, in a victory by and for student loan borrowers, a court ordered that the Department of Education had illegally delayed giving effect to an important rule from 2016 […]
Continue Reading →Court Finds Policy Limiting Loan Relief to Corinthian Borrowers Illegal, Stops Loan Collection Until New Policy is Approved
June 26, 2018
By the Project on Predatory Student Lending at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, which is representing the plaintiffs in Calvillo Manriquez v. DeVos. This post originally appeared […]
Continue Reading →Who is the Department of Education Looking Out For? Another Delay of Student Protections Follows a String of Actions Protecting Industry Profits Over Students
May 24, 2018
Today, the Department of Education announced that it does not plan to implement new rules designed to protect students in online degree programs from being taken advantage of by schools […]
Continue Reading →Relief in Sight for Defrauded Wilfred Student Borrowers
October 31, 2017
By Jane Greengold Stevens and Danielle Tarantolo, Co-Directors of Special Litigation Unit, New York Legal Assistance Group This post originally appeared on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59a870f5e4b0d0c16bb523c2 and http://nylag.org/blog/2017/08/relief-in-sight-for-defrauded-student-borrowers. Former students who attended the “Wilfred Beauty Academy” […]
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