It was a big week in the fight for student loan justice, including a new lawsuit and a court victory. The lawsuit: Defrauded former for-profit college students filed a lawsuit […]

You might think that struggling student loan borrowers face enough stress and pain from the government’s extreme student loan collection powers. This is sadly not the case. Many states have […]

Since you must work for 10 years in a qualifying job to get public service loan forgiveness and the program only started in late 2007, borrowers have only recently become […]

Guest Post by Deanne Loonin (Attorney and advocate for low-income student loan borrowers) Programs to help struggling student loan borrowers will only succeed if servicers effectively do their jobs and […]

We have been calling on the government for years to stop offsetting Social Security benefits of disabled student loan borrowers.  Recipients of Social Security Disability (SSDI) payments generally qualify for disability discharges. […]

It has been busy lately in the student loan servicing arena.  State and federal regulators have begun to wake up to the rampant problems caused by sloppy, inaccurate, and incompetent […]

We wrote in a previous post about our coalition letter to the Department of Education’s “Special Master”, urging him to create a fair and accessible “defense to repayment” process for […]

United States Senators Blumenthal, Murray and Warren sent a letter to the Department of Education in May requesting information about the Department’s reviews of servicers’ compliance with the Servicemembers Civil […]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) asked for comments on student loan servicing a few months ago.  Thousands of borrowers and their advocates responded before yesterday’s deadline, highlighting again and […]

The Obama Administration announced a number of relief options for borrowers this week, including new ways to help disabled borrowers.  This has been overshadowed by other news on student loans this […]