NCLC Launches New Video Series for Student Loan Borrowers
Videos explain borrowers’ repayment options as rapid changes in policy, funding create confusion.
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Rural, Low-Income Communities Win After Supreme Court Upholds Funding for Phone and Broadband
6-3 decision preserves affordable access to highspeed internet and phone for homes, schools, libraries, and other public facilities in underserved areas WASHINGTON – People in rural and low-income communities notched a win today with a U.S. Supreme Court decision preserving funding that ensures affordable and reliable phone and internet service is available in rural and…
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Payments Dive: CFPB, consumer groups clash over BNPL
Appearing in Payments Dive on June 16, Patrick Cooley interview NCLC Associate Director and Director of Federal Advocacy Lauren Saunders for coverage of how the battle over buy now, pay later — whether it’s helpful or hurtful to users — persists even after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month withdrew its rule regulating such…
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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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Families Could Lose Funds for Heating, Cooling, and Weatherization
NCLC Advocates Provide Testimony to House and Senate Committees to Preserve Protections for Safe, Liveable Homes
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The Guardian: US medical debt financing groups vie to be ‘solution’ to struggling rural hospitals
Appearing in The Guardian on June 12, 2025, Jessica Glenza interviews NCLC Senior Attorney April Kuehnhoff for coverage of how medical debt financing and “patient access” companies are pitching their services to struggling rural hospitals nervous about keeping the doors open, as congressional Republicans consider healthcare cuts that could leave 16 million Americans without insurance. “This really…
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Bloomberg Law: Financial Companies Push Trump’s CFPB to Undo More Settlements
Appearing in Bloomberg Law on June 12, 2025, Evan Weinberger interviews NCLC Deputy Director and Chief Advocacy Officer Diane Thompson for coverage of how reopening settlements will have a long-term impact on the CFPB’s reputation, particularly after Vought’s claims related to the Townstone matter. “It becomes very hard to ever rebuild the public’s confidence in…
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The Guardian: ‘How did I get approved for $30,000?’: is buy now, pay later headed for a fall?
Appearing in The Guardian on June 12, 2025, Lauren Aratani interviews NCLC Associate Director Lauren Saunders for coverage of how buy now, pay later loans add to debt burdens with installment payments as credit card debt balloons. “Companies like BNPL because it leads people to spend more and make things look more affordable than they…
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NBC News: Consumers brace for steeper bills and lower credit scores from Trump's financial deregulation
Appearing in NBC News on June 11, 2025, J.J. McCorvey interviewed NCLC Senior Attorney Chi Chi Wu for coverage of how consumers, once expecting relief from the impacts of medical debt on their credit reports, are now bracing for impact from President Donald Trump’s push to slash financial regulations. “These rules generally are very politically…
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The Boston Globe: Driver’s licenses in limbo: Government debts jeopardize thousands of Mass. drivers
Appearing in The Boston Globe on June 9, 2025, Laura Crimaldi interviews NCLC Staff Attorney Caroline Cohn for coverage of how thousands of Massachusetts drivers each year face the possibility of losing their legal authority to drive, and sometimes the only fix carries an insurmountable cost. The state Registry of Motor Vehicles placed driver’s licenses…
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Next Avenue: House Payments that Don’t Retire
Appearing in Next Avenue on June 9, 2025, Chris Farrell interviews NCLC Senior Attorney Odette Williamson for coverage of how more people are borrowing more money to buy more expensive homes, making it hard to pay off mortgages before retirement. “What we’re seeing is that people are cashing out the equity in their homes to…
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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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