Category: Student Loan Debt

Q: Total and Permanent Disability Student Loan Discharge Freedom Of Information Act Response from ED (1/29/20)

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Q: 21 Military & Veteran Organizations' Letter to CFPB on Debt Collection

Veterans Education Success organized and led a letter from 21 national military and veteran service organizations to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding its proposed changes to debt collection rules. [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/9.23.19-Debt-Collection-Public-Comment_FINAL-Signatures.pdf" title="9.23.19- Debt Collection Public Comment_FINAL Signatures"]

Q: Military Times: Lawmaker vows to protect student loan forgiveness program for troops, others

"A controversial Republican proposal from last Congress to eliminate a student loan forgiveness program for public servants, including military service members, may be off the table. Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill this week, the new chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., said the program isn’t going anywhere — “not if I have anything to do with it.” Plans to scrap the public service loan forgiveness program, or PSLF, were part of a larger package of proposed reforms to higher education included in the PROSPER Act, legislation that was hotly contested by many veteran education advocates as it made its way through the formerly Republican-led committee last year." Read the full story by Military Times, "Lawmaker vows to protect student loan forgiveness program for troops, others" published on January 30, 2019.

Q: Veteran Student Loan Debt 7 Years After Implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill

In May 2018, we reported on trends in veteran student loan debt from just before the 2009 implementation of the more generous Post-9/11 GI Bill (2007-08) to 3 years after the new benefit became available (2011-12). Those trends have emerged with greater clarity in the most recent U.S. Department of Education (ED) survey data for the 2015-16 academic year—7 years after veterans first began using the new benefit. This Issue Brief updates our May 2018 findings by examining trends across all three survey data sets—2007-08, 2011-12, and 2015-16. A full set of updated tables and figures are available by clicking here . [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/veteran-student-loan-debt-7-years-after-post-911-gi-bill-implementation.pdf"]

Q: American Heroes Network: Veterans Education Success’ Mike Saunders explains severely disabled veterans’ right to student loan forgiveness

As the Director of Military and Consumer Policy, Mike leads Veteran Education Success’ consumer protection policy work, including servicemembers’ protections under the Military Lending Act and Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. Mike joined VES as Legal Advocacy Director in July 2018, bringing professional experience as a long-time policy advocate for veterans at The Retired Enlisted Association. As Deputy Legislative Director for 8 years at The Retired Enlisted Association, Mike represented the interests of enlisted personnel before Congress on tax issues, consumer issues, and veterans benefits, as well as various other military personnel and veterans issues. A third generation member of the Army, Mike served in the Army from 1999 to 2001, in Bravo Company 1-66 Armor, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, the oldest tank regiment in the Army. Mike has degrees in history and economics from William & Mary College in Virginia, and a law degree from University of Richmond.

Total and Permanent Disability Student Loan Discharge Freedom Of Information Act Response from ED (1/29/20)

Mike Saunders2020-02-14T14:01:12+00:00February 10th, 2020|Categories: Disabled Vets TPD, Our FOIA Requests, Policy Advocacy (parent category), Student Loan Debt|

Press Release: Veterans Education Success Reacts to Department of Education’s Delay Discharging Student Loan Debt for Disabled Veterans

Barrett Bogue2020-01-16T20:27:58+00:00November 21st, 2019|Categories: Disabled Vets - More News & Info, Our Press Releases, Student Loan Debt|

21 Military & Veteran Organizations’ Letter to CFPB on Debt Collection

Carrie Wofford2019-09-25T20:51:07+00:00September 18th, 2019|Categories: Our Letters to CFPB, School Accountability & Student Protections - Our Letters, Student Loan Debt|

Press Release: DeVos’s Final Rewrite of the Borrower Defense Rule Is a Slap in the Face for Military-Connected Students

Barrett Bogue2019-10-12T15:31:58+00:00September 4th, 2019|Categories: Borrower Defense, Our Press Releases, School Accountability & Student Protections - more news & info, Student Loan Debt|

Press Release: Statement by Veterans Education Success on the Presidential Memorandum on Discharging the Federal Student Loan Debt of Totally and Permanently Disabled Veterans

Barrett Bogue2020-01-16T20:28:37+00:00August 21st, 2019|Categories: Disabled Vets - More News & Info, Our Press Releases, School Accountability & Student Protections - more news & info, Student Loan Debt|

Military Times Rebootcamp Blog: Here are Some Surprising Ways Troops and Vets Can Cut Their Student Loan Debt
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Military Times Rebootcamp Blog: Here are Some Surprising Ways Troops and Vets Can Cut Their Student Loan Debt

Mike Saunders2019-10-10T01:04:42+00:00February 19th, 2019|Categories: Our Op-Eds and Blogs, School Accountability & Student Protections - more news & info, Student Loan Debt|

Military Times: Lawmaker vows to protect student loan forgiveness program for troops, others

Barrett Bogue2020-01-06T17:14:37+00:00January 30th, 2019|Categories: Higher Ed News (we're not in), Other ED Issues, Student Loan Debt|

Veteran Student Loan Debt 7 Years After Implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill
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Veteran Student Loan Debt 7 Years After Implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill

Carrie Wofford2019-10-12T16:08:48+00:00January 18th, 2019|Categories: Our Reports & Issue Briefs, Quality of Education & Student Outcomes - Our Reports, Student Loan Debt|

American Heroes Network: Veterans Education Success’ Mike Saunders explains severely disabled veterans’ right to student loan forgiveness
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American Heroes Network: Veterans Education Success’ Mike Saunders explains severely disabled veterans’ right to student loan forgiveness

Carrie Wofford2020-01-16T20:30:00+00:00December 18th, 2018|Categories: Disabled Vets - More News & Info, Student Loan Debt, We're In The News|Tags: Public Service Loan Forgiveness|