Appearing in the Washington Post on July 30, 2025, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel interviews Kyra Taylor, staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center for coverage of how the Education Department will resume applying interest on loans being repaid through the Biden-era SAVE program. And in less than three years, the program will cease to exist, which…
Appearing in NPR and KFF Health News on July 25, 2025, Noam Levey interviews Chi Chi Wu, director of consumer reporting and data advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center for coverage of how, by paring back federal rules and programs designed to protect patients from the high cost of health care, the Trump administration…
Appearing in ABC News on July 25, 2025, Arthur Jones II interviews Abby Shafroth, managing director of advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center in coverage of the Department of Education’s temporary pause on discharges for Income Based Repayment (IBR) plan student loan borrowers. Shafroth described the situation as a “mess.” She noted the IBR…
Appearing in CNBC on August 1, 2025, Ana Teresa Sola interviews Alys Cohen, director of federal housing advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center for coverage of how a Senate committee approved a major housing bill this week, with a range of provisions that could make it easier for people to buy a home. While industry groups and local…
Appearing in Bloomberg Law on July 11, 2025, Evan Weinberger covers a federal judge in Texas’ decision to eliminate a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule barring medical debt from credit reports and lending decisions, handing a win to credit reporting companies and the Trump administration. The consumer advocate intervenors said they are evaluating their…
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Appearing in The New York Times on July 9, 2025, Tara Siegel Bernard interviews Abby Shafroth, director of the Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project at the National Consumer Law Center following the U.S. Education Department’s announcement that it would resume applying interest on Aug. 1 to federal student loans held by nearly eight million borrowers…
Appearing in CNBC on July 9, 2025, Greg Iacurci talks to Chi Chi Wu, director of consumer reporting and data advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center, about how cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will likely mean greater challenges with policing financial firms, especially large institutions. “It takes a lot of resources to…
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Appearing in The Boston Globe on July 22, 2025, Samantha J. Gross interviews NCLC Senior Attorney Andrea Bopp Stark about how Governor Maura Healey dismayed advocates when she signed into law protections for a Boston nonprofit last year that has been battling accusations of predatory lending for years. Now her Democratic colleague down the hall,…
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Appearing in Bloomberg Law on July 15, 2025, Cole Reynolds interviews NCLC Senior Attorney Carla Sanchez-Adams for coverage of the Trump administration’s plan to stop issuing paper checks for tax refunds — a plan advocates warn could leave some taxpayers confused or without refunds. Individuals who could struggle to get electronic payments include those who…
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Appearing in the Chicago Tribune on July 3, 2025, an op-ed by Chi Chi Wu, director of consumer reporting and data advocacy at NCLC discusses how millions of Americans recently saw their credit scores drop 100 or 150 points when the administration of Donald Trump started reporting student loan delinquencies to the credit bureaus. Americans should not…
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Appearing in Next Avenue on June 23, 2025, and sponsored by the RRF Foundation for Aging, this op-ed by Abby Shafroth, managing director of advocacy at NCLC, discusses the Administration’s plans to collect student loan debt have collided with concerns about reducing Social Security benefits and pushing older adults into poverty. “Rather than just another…
Appearing in Bloomberg Law on June 27, 2025, Angelica Serrano-Roman, Evan Weinberger, and Alex Wolf talk to John Rao, senior attorney at NCLC, about how bankrupt student loan borrowers subjected to illegal debt collection efforts have fewer options after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s retrenchment under the Trump administration. “The dismissal of the cases is…
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