Joint comments submitted by more than 50 organizations in response to the Department of Education’s plan to conduct negotiated rulemaking on the gainful employment regulations finalized in October 2014 and the borrower defense to repayment and college accountability regulations finalized in November 2016.
400,000+ student borrowers with disabilities could soon be required to resume making loan payments they don’t owe, and we’re calling on @SecCardona and @usedgov to do something about it. Enough is enough. #DefendStudents
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/groups-push-easier-student-loan-relief-disabled-77171016
We’re teaming up with @justiceinaging and @DECLASI petitioning @usedgov to automate discharges for student borrowers with disabilities. 400,000+ people haven’t received the relief they are entitled to. #DefendStudents
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/groups-push-easier-student-loan-relief-disabled-77171016
We’re petitioning @usedgov to automate the debt relief process for 400,000+ student borrowers with disabilities. Read our 100 Day Docket proposal to do just that here #DefendStudents https://www.defendstudents.org/news/100-day-docket-making-relief-automatic-for-borrowers-with-total-and-permanent-disabilities
“I would like the individuals who are responsible for this, who have names and faces … to be dealt with in the way in which people who look like me are dealt with in the court of law under far less offenses.” #defendstudents
https://www.arnoldventures.org/stories/they-took-my-choice-away-victims-of-for-profit-colleges-find-an-ally
Proud to join @GIBillRights & 20+ groups in this letter urging @SecCardona to act to provide relief to students who were defrauded by predatory #4profit institutions and failed by the Department under then-Secretary Betsy DeVos. #DefendStudents #BorrowerDefense
We were pleased to help lead a letter from over 20 organizations to @usedgov about the urgent need to address the borrower defense program. Read the letter here: https://vetsedsuccess.org/letter-from-23-organizations-to-secretary-of-education-cardona-about-the-borrower-defense-program/