Today, Congresswoman Pressley, in partnership with Congresswomen Omar and Adams and Chairwoman Maxine Waters, introduced a House companion to Senators Schumer and Warren resolution calling upon President-Elect Biden to cancel […]
On Saturday, August 8th, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing the Secretary of Education to extend a payment suspension and stop interest accrual for all student loans held by the […]
On the campaign trail, President-Elect Biden made a number of student loan promises that would alter the lives of millions of Americans. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, he promised […]
Late last week, the House passed an amended version of the HEROES Act, which included a number of critical protections that student loan borrowers need now. Importantly, the amended bill […]
On July 1, 2020 the Department of Education’s newest borrower defense rules went into effect and made it much harder for defrauded borrowers to get loan relief. The Department of […]
This week, Congress is ramping up its debate about what protections it should extend as student loan borrowers continue to weather the Coronavirus crisis. These protections cannot come soon enough; […]
Today on this Tax Day, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) has released Voices of Despair: How Seizing the EITC Is Leaving Student Loan Borrowers Homeless and Hopeless During a […]
Last Wednesday, the DeVos administration’s watered-down borrower defense rules went into effect. This set of regulations, established by the Obama administration in 2016, created a process for borrowers to ask […]
Today, new U.S. Department of Education (the Department) regulations will go into effect, erasing many of the protections students had against school fraud. These regulatory changes could not have come […]