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Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project

NCLC’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project helps student loan borrowers understand their student loan rights and obligations and we fight to make the student loan system better for borrowers.

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Student Loan Toolkit Helps Borrowers Manage Repayment

June 6, 2024

Joint Letter to the Department of Education Regarding the Implementation Delay of the new Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment (GE) Rule

April 2, 2024

Coalition Letter Opposing H.R. 6951, The College Cost Reduction Act (CCRA)

January 30, 2024

Coalition Letter To Under Secretary Kvaal Regarding School Accountability Rulemaking

August 31, 2023

My School Has Closed–What Do I Do Now?

July 31, 2023

Comments from the Legal Aid Community to the Department of Education re Administrative Capability and Ability to Benefit

June 20, 2023

Legal Aid Comments to Dep’t of Education re: School Participation in Federal Student Aid (Administrative Capability and Ability to Benefit)

June 20, 2023

Comments to the Dept of Education on Accountability Regulations in Higher Education

June 20, 2023

Protect Students & Taxpayers Coalition’s welcome letter to Members of the 118th Congress

February 9, 2023

Comments & Letters

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Joint Letter to the Department of Education Regarding the Implementation Delay of the new Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment (GE) Rule

April 2, 2024

Coalition Letter Opposing H.R. 6951, The College Cost Reduction Act (CCRA)

January 30, 2024

Comments from the Legal Aid Community to the Department of Education re Administrative Capability and Ability to Benefit

June 20, 2023

Legal Aid Comments to Dep’t of Education re: School Participation in Federal Student Aid (Administrative Capability and Ability to Benefit)

June 20, 2023

Comments to the Dept of Education on Accountability Regulations in Higher Education

June 20, 2023

Group Letter to NC-SARA Regarding Call for Policy Proposals, July 26, 2021

July 26, 2021

Coalition Letter to U.S. Department of Education in Response to a Notice of Negotiated for Programs Authorized Under Title IV

July 1, 2021

Legal Aid Coalition Comments to the Department of Education Regarding Intent to Establish Negotiated Rulemaking Committee: Title IV of the HEA

July 1, 2021

Comments in Response to NC-SARA Reply Letter

April 26, 2021

Reports

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How States Can Help Students Harmed by Higher Education Fraud

January 12, 2021

Gainful Employment: A Civil Rights Perspective

October 1, 2019

Issue Briefs

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Testimony

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Testimony: Protecting Students and Taxpayers – Improving the Closed School Discharge Process

October 21, 2021

Press Releases & News

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Student Loan Toolkit Helps Borrowers Manage Repayment

June 6, 2024

Statements on Department of Education Granting Debt Relief to 79,000 Former Students of For-Profit Westwood College

August 30, 2022

Department of Education Provides Long Overdue Debt Relief to ITT Tech, Kaplan Students

August 16, 2022

NCLC Advocates Praise Proposed Settlement in Sweet v. Cardona

June 23, 2022

Student Debt Cancellation Will Help Fix Broken Student Loan System, Close Racial Wealth Gap

June 8, 2022

NCLC Advocates Applaud the Department of Education’s Decision To Cancel Corinthian College Students’ Federal Student Loan Debts

June 2, 2022

Biden Administration Sued Again Over Languishing Debt Relief Claims Disproportionately Shouldered by Communities of Color

May 19, 2022

Advocates Applaud ED Approval of $238M Discharge for Marinello School of Beauty Borrowers

April 28, 2022

Advocates Support Extension of Student Loan Payment Pause and Praise Removal of Loans from Punitive Default System

April 6, 2022

From the NCLC Digital Library

Student Loan Law

NCLC’s Student Loan Law treatise details all the latest rights of student loan debtors, including loan forgiveness for the schools’ deceptive practices, financial hardship and other loan deferments, claims for proprietary school abuses and deception, and more.

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