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AUGUST 16, 2023

A District Court judge in Michigan has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged an initiative from the federal government seeking to forgive $39 million of student loan debt, determining the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue. Well, that didn’t take very long.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Nearly nine million people who have student loans have not yet made a payment after the moratorium on student loan payments ended three months ago, according to a published report that cited information from the Education Department.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Those debts include credit cards, auto loans, personal loans, mortgages, and student loans. Nearly 30% of consumers living in the 100 largest metropolitan areas of the United States were behind on at least one debt payment between July and September of last year, according to data released last week by LendingTree.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

billion of student loans for all of the 79,000 individuals who attended Westwood College between 2002 and 2015, ruling that the school “engaged in widespread misrepresentations about the value of its credentials for attendees’ and graduates’ employment prospects.”

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AUGUST 23, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced it had sued and obtained a temporary restraining order against a number of corporate and individual defendants accused of pretending to be affiliated with the Department of Education so that they could market student loan forgiveness programs that made false promises and collected millions in illegal (..)

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Three months after it was sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for violating a 2016 consent order for a number of alleged violations, LendUp Loans has agreed to stop making new loans and collecting on certain outstanding ones while also paying a fine of $100,000, the Bureau announced yesterday.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Attorney General of California announced that a group of individuals involved in a student loan debt relief scam have been sentenced — three of them receiving jail time — and paying more than $330,000 in restitution to victims who were “preyed on” because they were struggling to repay their student loans.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

is pushing the Department of Justice to implement new guidance related to how student loan debts are handled when individuals file for bankruptcy protection, saying the department needs “to do its part to ensure that borrowers who continue to struggle with student debt have a path toward additional relief.” Elizabeth Warren [D-Mass.]

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

The legal challenges to the federal government’s plan to cancel student loan debt for individuals making less than $125,000 a year have started, with a pair of suits claiming the administration failed to take the proper steps before announcing the plan.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

The Department of Education yesterday announced a proposed rule that aims to lower the student loan payments being made by those with student loan debt, while completely pausing payments for individuals who make less than $30,600 per year. A copy of the proposed rulemaking can be accessed by clicking here. The post Dept.

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MAY 15, 2023

The moratorium on student loan payments has cost the federal government $160 billion in lost assets and the federal government should be ordered to force individuals with unpaid student loan debts to start repaying them, according to a nonprofit think-tank that is seeking a preliminary injunction against the Department of Education.

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JUNE 24, 2022

The Department of Education yesterday announced a settlement in a lawsuit that will see the debts of 200,000 individuals forgiven, wiping out $6 billion in unpaid loans owed by individuals who had filed borrower defense claims that were left pending for years by previous administrations.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

Surprising nobody yesterday, President Biden announced that the federal government will forgive up to $10,000 in student loan debt for anyone making less than $125,000 per year and up to $20,000 for anyone with a Pell grant, while also extending the moratorium on making student loan payments through the end of the year.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

The Department of Education announced yesterday that it is canceling all the remaining federal student loans for anyone who attended ITT Technical Institute between 2005 and its closure in 2016. This will result in the cancellation of loans for 208,000 individuals who collectively owed $3.9 billion on those outstanding debts.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday published a special edition of its Supervisory Highlights, spotlighting the student loan servicing and collection markets and pointing out some of the issues it has uncovered when examining companies in that market. A copy of the report can be accessed by clicking here.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

A petition is being organized — and so far 35,000 individuals have signed it — asking the Department of Education to cancel their student loan debts. Issues with repayment and other concerns have led 40,000 individuals to go on a “student debt strike,” according to a published report.

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MARCH 10, 2024

Many student loan borrowers have an opportunity to have their entire student loans cancelled or receive more credit towards cancellation, but they must act before April 30, 2024.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

A bill has been introduced in the Senate to create a student loan borrower bill of rights, which would limit the circumstances in which late fees can be applied, prohibit the use of mandatory arbitration provisions, and force servicers to create units that are dedicated to keeping at-risk borrowers from defaulting, among other requirements.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

A Georgia man has been sentenced to six years in prison while also being ordered to pay $910,417 in restitution after pleading guilty in a scam that led to $48 million of federal student loans being fraudulently discharged through a program intended for disabled military veterans.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Judge Signs Off on Settlement, $11M in Attorney’s Fees in Student Loan Collection Case More Consumers Falling Behind on Loan Payments Consumers Getting Comfortable with Filing Disputes, Chargeback Requests: Report Compliance Digest – January 15 WORTH NOTING: How to wake up early, even if you’re not a morning person … Just how much you need (..)

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JUNE 13, 2022

The … The post Report Calls for ‘Broad-Based’ Cancellation of Student Loans appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

The governor of New York yesterday signed a bill into law that will eliminate a 22% collection fee on student loans owed to the state. The fee was added when unpaid student loan debts were referred to the Office of the Attorney General’s Civil Recoveries Bureau.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched another flare into the night sky, this time warning student loan servicers about making sure they are not making misrepresentations or making deceptive statements with respect to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which offers individuals the opportunity to have their student loan debts (..)

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Department of Education has announced a new plan to hold student loan servicers accountable for not harming individuals with stiff penalties that the department has already shown it is willing to put into practice.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Individuals with student loans who have started making payments again are facing a number of hurdles, such as waiting on hold for as long as 70 minutes to speak to a representative and receiving billing statements that are untimely and inaccurate, according to a report released last week by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Department of Education is considering proposals that would give borrowers “new flexibility” like initial grace periods when its moratorium on student loan payments ends on January 31, according to a published report.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Individuals with higher incomes are likely to get more bang for their buck following last week’s announcement that individuals making under $125,000 are eligible to have up to $20,000 of their outstanding student loan debt forgiven, but lower income households are more likely to have all of their debts forgiven, according to a report released (..)

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Student loan debt is keeping a lot of people from accomplishing their financial objectives, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors, including buying a home, taking a vacation, and starting a family, while also forcing more individuals to take second jobs or work where they are not happy to be able … The post Student (..)

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JULY 9, 2021

The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, one of the largest student loan servicers in the country, announced yesterday that it will stop servicing federal student loans by the end of this year, citing the increasing complexity and cost of handling loans on behalf of the Department of Education.

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JUNE 22, 2022

A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives that, if enacted, would prohibit the federal government from cancelling or forgiving federal student loans because the government does not have the authority to do so and because it’s “unfair for taxpayers who paid student loans or did not attend college to pay for those … (..)

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

While the federal government still works out all the kinks related to its plan to forgive student loan debt for individuals, the rest of the country is already moving on to the next type of debt they want to see forgiven — medical debt.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States, the burden of repaying student loans was weighing heavily on individuals, including those living in New York City, according to a report that was issued by the city’s Department of Worker and Consumer Protection.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A bill has been introduced in the Senate that seeks to hold universities accountable for paying a portion of student loans that go into default while also allowing student loans to be discharged when an individual files for bankruptcy protection. 4912 was introduced last week by Sen. Josh Hawley [R-Mo.],

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

Figuring out the interest rate on auto loans is a blurry process that may take factors other than the applicant’s creditworthiness into question and will likely lead to a spike in delinquency and default rates in the coming years as forbearance and deferment programs put in place for the COVID-19 pandemic expire, according to a … The post (..)

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Consumer Finance

APRIL 16, 2024

The CFPB issued an order against BloomTech and its CEO for deceiving students about the cost of loans and making false claims about graduates’ hiring rates.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

An annual report released yesterday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s education loan ombudsman notes that three out of every four complaints filed by consumers about student loans had to do with how those loans are being serviced and collected, and references “coercive debt collection practices” related to the collection (..)

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