Student Loan Help Video Series
Student loan borrower help video series explains repayment options as rapid changes in policy, and funding create confusion.
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CNBC: Republicans move to eliminate payment pauses for struggling student loan borrowers
Appearing in CNBC on June 17, 2025, Annie Nova interviews Abby Shafroth, managing director of advocacy and director of the National Consumer Law Center’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project, for coverage of how GOP lawmakers are moving in their “big, beautiful bill” to nix payment pauses for student loan borrowers who’ve lost their job or…
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Comments on Income-Driven Repayment Application
NCLC provided the U.S. Department of Education with these comments on the new proposed form for student loan borrowers to use to request to enroll in income-driven repayment plans. NCLC’s recommended several changes to help ensure that the process of enrolling and remaining in IDR plans is as smooth and accessible as possible to all…
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Organizations Urge Congress Not To Cut Pell Grants
More than 170 organizations urge Congress to invest in our nation’s workforce by fully funding the Pell Grant program and rejecting any proposed eligibility cuts. More than seven million students across the nation rely on Pell Grants to pay for college. Any program or eligibility cuts would increase costs for families and significantly reduce college…
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NerdWallet: Behind on Student Loan Payments? Act Now as 5 Million Summer Defaults Loom
Appearing in NerdWallet on June 6, 2025, Eliza Haverstock interviews NCLC Staff Attorney Kyra Taylor for coverage of how student loan borrowers who haven’t made federal student loan payments since October 2024 might default in July or August and how to get loans back into good standing. With essential costs rising and an increasingly complicated…
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Department of Education Delays Plan to Seize Social Security Benefits to Collect on Defaulted Student Loans
450,000+ student loan borrowers aged 62 and older are at risk of seizure of their Social Security benefits.
