The Department of Education has unprecedented powers to collect defaulted student loans.  The agency can take tax refunds (even earned income tax credits), garnish wages without first getting judgments, and […]

Redlining is the practice of denying credit to particular neighborhoods on a discriminatory basis.  The flip side is reverse redlining, the practice of targeting these same communities or protected classes […]

Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project Director Deanne Loonin recently spoke about student loan issues with Isaac Bowers, senior program manager at Equal Justice Works. Here is an excerpt from that interview: “Student […]

Megan McArdle’s recent article, “Don’t Count on Settling Those Student Loans” includes some helpful advice for student loan borrowers.  She is right on that it is very difficult to settle […]

Deanne Loonin, Director of NCLC’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project, spoke on a panel this week at the annual conference of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.  Here […]

As more and more problems with for-profit schools come to light, the states have joined the effort to increase oversight and hold schools accountable.  A number of state Attorney General […]

We wrote in a previous post about key comments submitted to the Department of Education for the upcoming negotiated rulemaking sessions.  Many groups raised important issues.  NCLC’s testimony focused on […]

We submitted these comments to the Department of Education last week.  We will write a number of articles the next few weeks with more details about key proposals. Our recommendations […]

On May 5, 2011, the Department of Education announced that it will soon be holding a new round of negotiated rulemaking sessions.   The Department also announced three public hearings for interested […]

We wrote a report in 2009 about the lack of relief for financially distressed private student loan borrowers.  Unfortunately, we have seen little progress in the  past few years and […]