We are writing to demand that the U.S. Department of Education take immediate steps to address the ongoing, unprecedented, and system wide problems and delays currently plaguing its default servicing system.
Letter to President-Elect Joseph Biden Transition Team re: Recommended Revisions to False Certification (Ability-to-Benefit) Discharge Policies and Regulations
Community, civil rights, consumer, and student advocacy organizations comment on the proposed rule on Debt Collection Practices by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and express our concerns about the Proposed Rule’s failure to protect student loan borrowers from abusive debt collection practices.
Bill text for H.R. 2648, legislation to provide bankruptcy relief for student borrowers
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We write on behalf of the 56 undersigned organizations advocating for students and student loan borrowers in response to the Safely Back to School and Back to Work Act. Although simplifying the FAFSA and establishing clear repayment options are worthy goals, this legislation would actually penalize many borrowers and remove important protections, while ignoring the urgent needs for both student loan debt cancellation and, at the very least, extension and expansion of the automatic forbearance period put in place by the CARES Act.
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35 organizations advocating for students, families, taxpayers, veterans, and service members write to express concern about the unclear future facing students in the wake of the sudden closures of both Education Corporation of America (ECA) and Vatterott Education Holdings, companies that announced the closures of virtually all of their schools on December 5th and December 17th, 2018, respectively.
As 68 organizations and advocates working on behalf of students, consumers, veterans, service members, faculty and staff, civil rights, and college access, we emphatically support a strong gainful employment rule. A strong rule is needed to protect students and taxpayers from career education programs that consistently leave students with large debts they cannot afford to…
The 25 undersigned legal aid organizations write to express our deep concern about the futures of our clients with defaulted federal student loans once repayment restarts in just a few short months.
As organizations with a shared goal of ensuring that higher education students have access to high quality education that does not leave them with worthless degrees and unaffordable debt, whether they enroll in brick-and-mortar programs or in online education programs, we appreciate the call for proposals to modify NC-SARA policy. NC-SARA’s position affords it important opportunities to ensure policies exist to protect students from being harmed.
Read More about Group Letter to NC-SARA Regarding Call for Policy Proposals, July 26, 2021
The 66 undersigned community, civil rights, consumer, and student advocacy organizations thank you for taking swift action to pass the CARES Act to begin to grapple with the ongoing economic fallout caused by the coronavirus.
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Group Letter to the U.S. Department of Education re: Compliance Report, Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools
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