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Student Loan Forgiveness Cannot Work Without a Right to a Payment History
May 23, 2019
by Ella Halpine
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 Ella Halpine
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 […]
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 →96 Out of 28,000 Borrowers Approved for Public Service Loan Forgiveness … What Does This Mean for Everyone Else?
October 05, 2018
by Ella Halpine
It has been one year since student loan borrowers have been theoretically eligible to have their loans forgiven under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. And yet, out of […]
Continue Reading →Tell Betsy DeVos: Cheated Students Deserve Loan Refunds and Keep Big Business Out of Higher Ed
August 23, 2018
by Svetlana
By Higher Ed Not Debt The Department of Education wants your opinion! Under the “borrower defense” rule, the federal government will give you loan relief if you were misled or […]
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 […]
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Important Note: On June 24, 2024, two court decisions temporarily blocked parts of the SAVE Plan from taking effect. These decisions may change borrowers’ rights and access to certain benefits, including repayment plans. We will update this website with more details on how this will impact borrowers soon. Visit here for more information.
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