student loans

Student Loans and Other Doings for the ABI Consumer Bankruptcy Commission

05/24/18

The American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy has been hard at work (Full disclosure: I am the Commission's reporter.) Yesterday, the Commission submitted written comments to the Department of Education's

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Call for Papers on College Completion and Student Debt

05/21/18

For those of you writing on student loans, you may be interested in a new call for papers for a conference I am working to organize. On November 30, 2018, the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, Boston College Law School, and the National Consumer Law Center will hold a daylong symposium on Post-Secondary Education Non-completion and Student Loan Debt on the Law School campus.   Our call for

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The underutilized student loan bankruptcy discharge

03/28/18

A common misconception is that student loans are never dischargeable in bankruptcy. There is a bankruptcy discharge exception for some qualified student loans and educational benefit repayment obligations. The discharge exception does not, however, apply to all loans made to students.

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Education Department Request for Information on Student Loan Discharge in Bankruptcy

02/28/18

Following up on Alan White's post from this morning about the Education Department's draft notice about debt collection laws applicable to student loan debt collectors that prompted a Twitter moment, some more student loan news from the Education Department.

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Preempting the states: US Ed to shield debt collectors from consumer protection

02/28/18

As if the power to garnish wages without going to court, seize federal income tax refunds and charge 25% collection fees weren't enough, debt collectors have now persuaded the Education Department to free them from state consumer protection laws when they collect defaulted student loans.

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Whitford on Law School Financial Aid

11/16/17

WhitfordAlthough technically

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