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Department of Education Continues to be in Significant Breach of Borrower Defense Settlement
Frustration grows with the Department’s perpetual failure to deliver relief according to the dates it agreed to in the $6 billion settlement
Students Score a Victory Against USC as Court Allows Discrimination Claim in Class Action Lawsuit to Move Forward
Graduate social work students are suing USC for allegedly misleading students about its expensive online MSW degree program and operating a “diploma mill”
The Latest From PPSL: New cases, holding servicers accountable, and protecting borrower defense
Summer has been a busy season for us at PPSL, and as we dive into fall, there’s a lot to share. From filing new cases to increased advocacy efforts, we’re mobilizing borrowers and working together to hold the student loan system accountable to borrowers and the law.
STATEMENT: Borrower Advocates Applaud New Navient Ban from Federal Student Loan Servicing
“This is a giant step toward stopping predatory actors like Navient from preying on student borrowers”
NCLC, PPSL, and SBPC Joint Statement on 50+ Lawmakers Letter to Cardona About MOHELA
50 members of Congress, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Jim Clyburn, sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about the student loan servicing company Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri (MOHELA).
Millions of student-loan borrowers' payments are being 'wildly' mismanaged by a major servicer — and it might be time to terminate its contract, over 50 Democratic lawmakers say | Business Insider
It might be time for the Education Department to consider firing a major student-loan company, a group of Democratic lawmakers say.
The Biden administration said their student debt was canceled, but their servicer still says they owe. Now they’re suing. | MarketWatch
Represented by the Project on Predatory Student Lending, borrowers allege in a lawsuit against MOHELA that in some cases they’ve been waiting years for the debt relief they were promised.
As AG, Kamala Harris took on for-profit colleges. Over a decade later, the fight isn’t over. | The Boston Globe
Tens of thousands of former Corinthian students are still being charged for their loans for the worthless program that scammed them, advocates say, despite Harris and the Department of Education announcing two years ago those debts would be wiped away. The reason appears to be outside of Harris’s control: Advocates blame the loan servicer, who they are now suing.
For-Profit College Students Sue MOHELA for Not Delivering Promised Debt Forgiveness | American Prospect
Yet as the lawsuit filed today claims, when loans actually are being forgiven, MOHELA is inflicting harm rather than suffering it, by failing to process the discharges. “I wish the state of Missouri had to defend MOHELA’s failure to deliver these discharges,” Connor said.
Student Borrowers Sue MOHELA for Failing to Implement Student Loan Discharges
Borrowers from predatory for-profit institutions continue to receive collection notices and show balances more than a year after ED cancelled their loan obligations.