School Accountability & Student Protections – Our Letters

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: TICAS Updated Gainful Employment Rule Fact Sheet (August 2019)

The Institute for College Access and Success published an updated "What to Know About the Gainful Employment Rule,"which worked to improve quality, lower costs, and save taxpayer money. The Trump Administration rescinded the rule on July 1, 2019, and immediately allowed schools to stop complying.[pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TICAS-Updated-August-2019-GE-Rule-Fact-Sheet.pdf" title="TICAS Updated August 2019 GE Rule Fact Sheet"]

Q: Veterans and Military Service Organizations urge the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to maintain mandatory underwriting provisions of the rule regulating Payday, vehicle title and high-cost installment loans

Military and Veteran Service Organizations (MSO/VSOs) write to express opposition to recension of underwriting requirements of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) 2017 rule regulating Payday, Vehicle Title and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans. [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Commentre.RecensionofProvisionsofPaydayRule_FINAL.pdf" title="Comment+re.+Recension+of+Provisions+of+Payday+Rule_FINAL"]

Q: We submitted a formal “Third Party Comment” regarding the accreditor ACICS to the Council for Higher Education Accreditation

We ask you to please review the following two letters regarding ACICS. The concerns of Veterans and Military Service Organizations regarding ACICS still stand: [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CHEAThirdPartyCommentreACICS.May2019.pdf" title="CHEA+Third+Party+Comment+re+ACICS.May2019"]

Q: 37 Veterans and Military Service Organizations write Congress to share our priorities for Higher Education Act reauthorization

37 undersigned organizations representing the interests of more than 2 million military-connected current students in higher education, write to ensure that reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) increases college access and improves college completion for our nation’s service members, veterans, and their family members. [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/VSOMSOHEAPriorities.FINAL_.2May2019.pdf" title="VSO+MSO+HEA+Priorities.FINAL.2May2019"]

Q: Our recommendations to Senators regarding the needs of students of color

Thank you for the opportunity to share our thoughts on the needs of student borrowers of color as you undertake Higher Education Act reauthorization. Veterans Education Success represents veterans, servicemembers, military families, and survivors. According to the Defense Department, more than 30% of the Armed Forces (including officers) identify as people of color (not including Latino or Hispanic).1 In addition, 15.5% identify as Latino or Hispanic, including 16.5% of self-identified whites. 2 The non-officer (enlisted) ranks are more heavily non-white. [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/HEAStudentsofColorRecomendations.Final_.pdf" title="HEA+Students+of+Color+Recomendations.Final"]

Q: 36 Veteran and Military Organizations Ask VA for Better Oversight of GI Bill Colleges

A letter from 36 military and veteran organizations to the Secretary of VA, requesting a meeting and his attention to the Inspector General's finding that VA is wasting $2.3 billion in GI Bill to colleges that should not have been approved, mostly because they deceive veterans into enrolling, in violation of 38 USC 3696. [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/VSO-Letter-to-VA-Secretary-1.pdf" title="VSO Letter to VA Secretary-1"]

Q: Our Letter urging VA to follow the law on schools that defraud veterans

After multiple for-profit colleges have been caught defrauding veterans, the VA has still failed to act. We wrote a letter to the VA reminding the agency of its duty to protect veterans. [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cec-chairman-letter.pdf"]

Q: Free Credit Monitoring for Servicemembers

VES and other veterans and military service organizations write to US Federal Trade Commission regarding free credit monitoring for servicemembers [pdf-embedder url="https://vetsedsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/vso-letter-free-credit-monitoring.pdf"]