In Evaluating TAB Bank, FDIC Should Consider Consumer Harm, Possible Legal...
June 30, 2022 On the eve of FDIC’s Community Reinvestment Act examination of TAB Bank, advocates file petition with 44,500+ signatures and analysis of consumer complaints showing deception, debt...
View ArticleAdvocates Call for Continued Pause on Student Loan Payments As Families Face...
June 30, 2022 176 Organizations Representing Students, Workers, People of Color, and Faith Communities Demand: “People with Student Debt Cannot be Required to Make Payments Toward Loans You Promised to...
View ArticleNew Report Finds Incarcerated Federal Student Loan Borrowers Systematically...
July 27, 2022 Impossibility of Navigating Student Loan System While Behind Bars Poses Massive Risks to Administration's Recent Pell and Fresh Start Proposals WASHINGTON — Today, the Student Borrower...
View ArticleDepartment of Education Provides Long Overdue Debt Relief to ITT Tech, Kaplan...
August 16, 2022 WASHINGTON – National Consumer Law Center advocates applaud the Department of Education’s decision today to discharge $3.9 billion of debt for 208,000 borrowers who attended all ITT...
View ArticleFCC Must Eliminate Financial Incentives, Take Aggressive Action to Stop...
August 18, 2022 WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must take swift action to stop telephone service providers from making money by transmitting illegal robocalls to U.S. telephone...
View ArticlePresident Biden’s Order Canceling Federal Student Loan Debt Will Bring...
August 24, 2022 Today, in response to President Biden’s announcement on student debt cancellation, advocates at the National Consumer Law Center issued the following statements: “Today’s announcement...
View ArticleBiden Administration Issues Order to Reduce Impact of Medical Debt on Federal...
August 25, 2022 Biden Administration Issues Order to Reduce Impact of Medical Debt on Federal Loan Programs WASHINGTON – The White House has issued marching orders to federal agencies to focus on ways...
View ArticleStatements on Department of Education Granting Debt Relief to 79,000 Former...
August 30, 2022 Student Defense, NCLC, Lawyers’ Committee Issue Statements on Department of Education Granting Debt Relief to 79,000 Former Students of For-Profit Westwood College Today, the U.S....
View ArticleMore than 100 Consumer, Labor and Civil Rights Groups Call on CFPB to Take...
September 14, 2022 WASHINGTON – Over 100 consumer, civil rights, and labor groups today called on CFPB Director Rohit Chopra to exercise the agency’s authority to limit forced arbitration clauses,...
View ArticleCongress Passes Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act to Relieve Divorced...
September 21, 2022 Today, in response to news of the passage of the Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act in the U.S. House, which will now head to the President’s desk, Kyra Taylor, student loan...
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