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“We don’t think that can be clawed back under the law. We don’t think it should be clawed back, of course, but we’re ready to defend those discharges,” said Eileen Connor, president and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, which represents borrowers defrauded by their colleges.

“The past four years have been filled with highs and lows for federal student loan borrowers, as nearly 5 million have benefited from $175 billion in debt cancellation provided by President Joe Biden and others have watched their prospects for relief ensnared by litigation. The next four years could be just as tumultuous with Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House.”

“It shouldn’t be part of the legacy of [the Biden] administration that people continue to pay these debts when it’s acknowledged that they’re the product of this consumer fraud,” said Eileen Connor, the director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, which represents former students of for-profit colleges in court.

The vice president and the U.S. Department of Education must follow through on loan discharges promised to student borrowers, one legal expert argues.

For-profit college industry facing increasing scrutiny at New Jersey Senate Hearing.

It might be time for the Education Department to consider firing a major student-loan company, a group of Democratic lawmakers say.

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.

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.

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.

Many people who borrow private student loans are required to get a co-signer, a requirement that can spread the pain if repayment becomes a challenge.

In response, the administration said it will put the 8 million borrowers’ loans in the Save program in interest-free forbearance.