OUR WORK ON DISABLED VETERANS’ RIGHTS TO LOAN FORGIVENESS
We had a significant victory for disabled veterans in August 2019! We had mobilized veterans groups to sign letters, filed FOIA and legal requests, engaged Congressional leaders and state Attorneys General in adding their pressure, and garnered media attention – all to expose the US Education Department’s violation of 100% disabled veterans’ statutory (legal) right to student loan forgiveness. After more than a year of our leadership mobilizing pressure, we succeeded! The Trump Administration backed down and agreed to follow the law!
#Veterans groups are demanding that @BetsyDeVosED stop putting #disabled veterans in default on student loans and automatically give disabled veterans their lawful right to loan forgiveness.https://t.co/s1wgoyMlxT https://t.co/gltJzQZDhs
— Veterans Education Success (@GIBillRights) November 9, 2018
2021 Education Department Hearings
We mobilized individual veterans and veterans leaders to testify at the Education Department’s public hearings in 2021 on many topics, including student loan relief for disabled veterans.
- Testimony of William Hubbard, Veterans Education Success (written testimony here; photo here)
- Formal Written Submission by Veterans Education Success
- Testimony of William Buchanan, Veterans Education Success (written testimony here)
MORE NEWS & INFO ABOUT DISABLED VETERANS’ RIGHTS TO LOAN RELIEF
American Heroes Network: Veterans Education Success’ Mike Saunders explains severely disabled veterans’ right to student loan forgiveness
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CNBC: Many disabled veterans eligible for student loan forgiveness are still paying
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