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WRGA-FM (Atlanta, GA): Radio Interview with Will Hubbard on ITT Tech Loan Forgiveness
We're very excited that the Biden administration has is taking important and long overdue steps to cancel some of these loans that these students had. Unfortunately, veterans that might have used the GI Bill are [...]
North Carolina News Network: Interview with Della Justice on ITT Tech Loan Forgiveness
Just to tell you a little bit about our organization it is Veterans Education Success. As you said, we are a nonprofit organization that works on a bipartisan basis to protect the integrity and promise [...]
CNBC: Key events on the path to student loan forgiveness, from Occupy Wall Street to the 2020 presidential primaries
Nassirian at Veterans Education Success agreed that the problems in the higher education system, namely price escalation and diminishing quality, span way beyond the for-profit sector. “Packaging people with debt that schools knew or should [...]
Sirius XM’s POTUS Politics: Interview With William Hubbard on the ITT Tech Borrower Defense Relief Announcement
They have been a long time target of what I like to call scam factories. And these are schools that are purely interested in taking advantage of their benefits, and they don't even actually care [...]
CNBC: ‘It’s frustrating and stressful.’ 40 million people are in the dark about whether or not student loan payments will resume
“The fact that they haven’t issued any guidance so close to the theoretical start date pretty much indicates yet another payment freeze is inevitable,” said Barmak Nassirian, vice president for higher education policy at Veterans [...]
The Charlotte Observer: These colleges lied to students. Their loans don’t have to be paid back, feds say
Veterans Education Success called the decision “huge news” but asked that Congress restore GI Bill benefits to defrauded veterans. “These students deserve to have their student loans canceled after having been so misled about the [...]
Inside Higher Ed: Debt Relief for All Former ITT Students
Tasha Berkhalter, a former ITT student and veteran who had a borrower-defense claim approved in 2021, said, “I chose the school because they had advertised its high-tech criminal justice program. Their initial staff told me [...]
Military Times: Plan to erase $4B in ITT student loans won’t restore GI Bill benefits
“These students deserve to have their student loans canceled after having been so misled about the education at ITT, the transferability of credits, and employment after graduation,” said Della Justice, vice president of legal affairs [...]
The Associated Press: Former ITT Tech Students Get $3.9B in Debt Cancellation
Federal officials based the decision on findings from many state attorneys general, along with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the nonprofit Veterans Education Success. Investigators found widespread evidence that ITT Tech made false claims [...]
MarketWatch: Department of Education to cancel $3.9 billion in federal loan debt for former ITT students
Tasha Berkhalter, a former ITT student, shared her first hand experience with these tactics. An army veteran, Berkhalter enrolled at ITT in 2006 hoping to earn a credential that would allow her to work for [...]
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