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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 →Switch Now, Pay Less: How Borrowers in ICR Can Reach Student Loan Forgiveness Sooner
August 01, 2019
by Svetlana
By: Kendra Cobb* Last month marked the 25th anniversary of the first income-driven repayment (IDR) plan: the Income-Contingent Repayment Plan (ICR). This means that student loan borrowers who entered ICR […]
Continue Reading →Another Way to Repay: Student Loan Forgiveness Under Income-Driven Repayment Plans
July 09, 2019
by Persis Yu
About the author: National Consumer Law Center intern Kendra Cobb is a rising third-year law student at Howard University School of Law who is passionate about financial services and economic […]
Continue Reading →New Developments in the Fight for Student Borrower Justice
June 29, 2019
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 […]
Continue Reading →Student Loan Forgiveness Cannot Work Without a Right to a Payment History
May 23, 2019
by Persis Yu
This post originally appeared on https://protectborrowers.org/qualifying-payments/ This year, we’ve seen lawmakers in states across the country demand accountability from the private-sector student loan companies that handle loans for more than […]
Continue Reading →Accounts Receivable & Withheld Transcripts: The Quiet Higher Ed Crisis That States Could be Tackling
April 15, 2019
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 […]
Continue Reading →Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness
February 18, 2019
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 […]
Continue Reading →Mandatory Wage Garnishment for All Student Loan Borrowers?
February 12, 2019
by Persis Yu
Last week, Senator Lamar Alexander, the Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, proposed a program that would require student loan borrowers to repay their […]
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 […]
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