Lawsuit Calls on Department of Education to Provide Relief to Students Whose Schools Closed
December 03, 2018
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By Margaret Mattes Tens of thousands of student borrowers unable to complete their educations at the approximately 1473 postsecondary schools or campuses that closed between November 2013 and November 2015 nationwide are now entitled to have their federal student loans immediately dis
Continue Reading →Now in Effect: Rules on Student Loan Relief for School Closures and Misconduct, and Limits on Forced Arbitration
October 25, 2018
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This month, in a victory by and for student loan borrowers, a court ordered that the Department of Education had illegally delayed giving effect to an important rule from 2016 designed to protect student loan borrowers and taxpayers from school closures and misconduct. The court
Continue Reading →Court Finds Policy Limiting Loan Relief to Corinthian Borrowers Illegal, Stops Loan Collection Until New Policy is Approved
June 26, 2018
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By the Project on Predatory Student Lending at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, which is representing the plaintiffs in Calvillo Manriquez v. DeVos. This post originally appeared on https://predatorystudentlending.org/updates/update-preliminary-injunction-granted-what-
Continue Reading →Who is the Department of Education Looking Out For? Another Delay of Student Protections Follows a String of Actions Protecting Industry Profits Over Students
May 24, 2018
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Today, the Department of Education announced that it does not plan to implement new rules designed to protect students in online degree programs from being taken advantage of by schools that load students up with debt but offer useless degrees. The “Program Integrity and Improve
Continue Reading →Relief in Sight for Defrauded Wilfred Student Borrowers
October 31, 2017
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By Jane Greengold Stevens and Danielle Tarantolo, Co-Directors of Special Litigation Unit, New York Legal Assistance Group This post originally appeared on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59a870f5e4b0d0c16bb523c2 andhttp://nylag.org/blog/2017/08/relief-in-sight-for-
Continue Reading →Student Loan Management When Disaster Strikes
September 13, 2017
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By Adam S. Minsky, Esq., Law Office of Adam S. Minsky, Boston, Massachusetts This post originally appeared on http://bostonstudentloanlawyer.com/student-loan-management-disaster-strikes/. It’s a scary time for millions of Americans right now. Much of eastern Texas has been decla
Continue Reading →Loss of IRS Data Retrieval Tool Complicates Financial Aid Applications and Student Loan Repayment for Millions
April 12, 2017
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By Diane Cheng, Associate Research Director, the Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) This post originally appeared on www.ticas.org/blog. 20 million students complete the FAFSA every year to apply for financial aid from the federal government, states, and colleges. More
Continue Reading →Borrower Defense Rules to Protect Students Live Another Day
April 07, 2017
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Advocates for student loan borrowers breathed a sigh of relief on March 30, when the deadline passed for Congress to introduce a resolution to roll back the new “borrower defense” rules. These rules are designed to protect students and taxpayers from harm by predator
Continue Reading →Student Loan Relief for ITT Students Part 3: Student Claims in the ITT Bankruptcy Proceeding
January 04, 2017
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There are no easy answers for former ITT Tech students struggling with student loan debt, but there are a number of actions these students can consider to try to get rid of any unfair debt. Closed School Discharge, Borrower Defenses, State Tuition Recovery Funds In previous posts, we
Continue Reading →Education Department’s New Rules Provide a Clearer Path to Relief for Borrowers Harmed by their School, But Real Impact Will Depend on How the Department Implements the Rules
October 31, 2016
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On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education announced final regulations to protect federal student loan borrowers and taxpayers against closures and misconduct by predatory schools like we saw with the now closed Corinthian Colleges. The regulations, most of which are s
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