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Cardona scraps DeVos policy, will fully cancel debt of many students defrauded by colleges

by Protect Students and Taxpayers | Mar 18, 2021 | Borrower Defense

An estimated 72,000 people will get full federal loan cancellation after the Education Department’s move

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studentlegalnetStudent Defense@studentlegalnet·
18h

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

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studentlegalnetStudent Defense@studentlegalnet·
19 Apr

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

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studentlegalnetStudent Defense@studentlegalnet·
19 Apr

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

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studentlegalnetStudent Defense@studentlegalnet·
15 Apr

“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

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YoungInvincibleYoung Invincibles@YoungInvincible·
14 Apr

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

Veterans Education Success@GIBillRights

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/

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