Posts Tagged ‘Partial Denial’
Defrauded Student Loan Borrowers Win, but Still Lose | New York Times
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is denying huge batches of relief requests from students whose schools defrauded them. Even those who aren’t denied are getting very little — or sometimes nothing.
Read MoreSix Months into 2020: Wins for Students and Fighting for Justice | Blog
Six months into 2020 and the Project on Predatory Student Lending has won a major lawsuit against the Department of Education in Vara v DeVos, and agreed to a proposed settlement in Sweet v DeVos. They’ve also continued to fight for justice in across other new pieces litigation this year.
Read MoreScammed Borrowers Sue Betsy DeVos, Alleging She Illegally Limited Student-Loan Cancellation | Market Watch
Students who’ve been scammed by their schools are being illegally cheated again — this time out of the loan cancellation that they’re entitled to, a new lawsuit alleges. A group of student-loan borrowers filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday accusing Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her department of illegally limiting the amount of relief student-loan borrowers who were misled by their schools receive.
Read MoreStudent Loan Borrowers Sue DeVos To Overturn Loan Forgiveness Rule | Forbes
Student loan borrowers have filed a new lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The lawsuit concerns the Borrower Defense to Repayment program. This loan forgiveness program was originally enacted by the Obama administration to provide student debt relief to students who were misled, defrauded, or otherwise harmed by predatory colleges and universities.
Read MoreEducation Secretary DeVos Sued Over Rule Related to For-Profit College Fraud | Yahoo Finance
The Department of Education (ED) changed its rules on how students defrauded by for-profit colleges seek debt relief, leading to lawsuits and a political fight to return the rule to its Obama-era form and a veto from President Trump in support of the change. Now consumer advocates are suing over related, lesser known Trump administration student debt rule change in another attempt to obtain more relief for defrauded students.
Read MoreBetsy DeVos To Be Sued Over Partial Debt Forgiveness Policy | Forbes
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is being sued again. This time for her new partial debt forgiveness policy under the “borrower defense to repayment” rule. DeVos announced the new policy last year, providing for a way for borrowers who were defrauded by their school to get only a portion of their loans cancelled.
Read MoreStudents Challenge Education Department’s Latest Scheme to Deny Student-Loan Relief | Press Release
A Trump administration rule that denies loan relief to many students cheated by their schools is deeply flawed and should be overturned, Public Citizen and the Project on Predatory Student Lending told a court today. The groups represent student borrowers in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s new “partial relief” rule.
Read MoreConsumer Groups to Challenge ‘Partial Relief’ Rule | Inside Higher Ed
Consumer groups are expected to file a federal lawsuit today challenging U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s so-called partial relief rule, in which more students get only a part of their student debt forgiven if they have been defrauded by their institutions.
Read MoreNew Lawsuit Over DeVos’ Partial Loan Forgiveness Policy | Politico
Consumer groups this morning are filing a new legal challenge to DeVos’ policy, announced last year, that will cancel only part of the loan debt owed by federal student loan borrowers who are defrauded by their college.
Read MoreSTATEMENT: “This hearing has made clear once again that Secretary DeVos won’t let the law get in the way of her agenda against students” | Press Release
Secretary DeVos made her point very clear in today’s hearing: she does not believe that cheated borrowers are legally entitled to relief.
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