This group letter urges the Department of Education to take action to protect federal student loan borrowers from harm caused by the SAVE litigation’s large-scale disruption of the student loan repayment system, which has led to a temporary removal of online repayment plan applications and an extended pause in processing applications to consolidate loans or…
NCLC wrote and submitted this amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Missouri v. Biden. In this case, Missouri and several other states have challenged the U.S. Department of Education’s 2023 rules governing income-driven repayment, including the SAVE plan. This amicus brief offers NCLC’s student loan law expertise to…
The Student Loan Toolkit explains the basics of the student loan system, how to assess your own student loan situation, and your options for managing your student loan debt.
These comments, submitted on behalf of organizations across the country that provide free legal assistance to low-income people, address the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed student debt relief rules that authorize the Secretary of Education to waive all or part of a borrower’s federal student loan balance under a number of specified circumstances. The comments…
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This letter from the New York Legal Assistance Group, the National Consumer Law Center, and the Education Debt Consumer Assistance Program calls on the U.S. Department of Education to clarify that all federal student loan discharges based on borrower disability that are approved before the end of 2025 are not subject to federal income tax,…
Published 12/12/2022; Updated 2/15/24 A new Guidance from the Department of Justice (Department), issued in coordination with the Department of Education (Education), has the potential to change bankruptcy practice dramatically. Until now, attorneys have not thought of bankruptcy as a way to help clients struggling with student loan debt. If the Guidance is implemented as…
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