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ABA Settles With Dept of Education: All Full-Time ABA Employees Qualify For PSLF

Posted on February 20, 2020 by askHFTD

Read on below for all the information from the ABA website. Hopefully this means the Department of Education will stop creating new PSLF “rules” without going through the proper legal changes such as regulations passed via Congress. We want to…

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PSLF Reinstated For ABA Employees

Posted on August 30, 2019 by askHFTD

Fedloan Servicing has finally made right on its past error where it pulled the PSLF rug from under several ABA employees. That resulted in a lengthy lawsuit that found resolution in February 2019. The US District Judge Kelly ruled that…

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Quick Non-Update on ABA Case

Posted on December 19, 2018 by askHFTD

We’ll have to wait until January 9, 2018 for the transcript release of the September 26, 2018 motion hearing. That’s when the redacted transcripts will be released and we’ll see how the ABA’s motion for preliminary injunction fared against the…

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American Bar Association PSLF Case Gets Moving

Posted on September 12, 2018 by askHFTD — No Comments ↓

The ABA is continuing its fight against the Department of Education, filing a preliminary injunction on September 11, 2018. The injunction will stop the Department of Education from using its “changed interpretation” of PSLF and reinstate the ABA as a…

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ABA Lawsuit: A Non-Update

Posted on May 23, 2018 by askHFTD — No Comments ↓

Well, it looks like the ABA lawsuit is crawling along still. The last filing was in early March 2018, where the ABA was urging the court to hurry up schedule a status conference or alternatively, oral argument. The ABA also…

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Update on ABA lawsuit against Department of Education

Posted on January 17, 2018 by askHFTD — No Comments ↓

The lawsuit has taken an interesting turn with the ABA asserting the court should take judicial notice of 3 e-mails between FedLoan Servicing employees. These emails were obtained under FOIA requests and apparently, took 2 years and a court order…

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ABA Argues Edits of ECF and PSLF Forms Require Judicial Review

Posted on September 7, 2017 by askHFTD — No Comments ↓

If you look carefully at the Employment Certification Form and PSLF Forgiveness Form, you will notice a few changes: 1. Not-for-profit organizations that are not tax-exempt under 501c3 now have a “primary purpose” requirement (see page 2, Q13 of ECF…

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Sneak Peek: Department of Education PSLF Decision-Making

Posted on August 24, 2017 by askHFTD — No Comments ↓

From the ongoing litigation between the ABA and Department of Education (ED), we’re able to get a glance at the ED’s internal PSLF decision-making process. In the ABA’s most recently filed Memo 08.21.17, we see that FedLoan Servicing will e-mail the…

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Department of Education: ECF Does Not Confirm PSLF

Posted on March 29, 2017 by askHFTD — No Comments ↓

In the American Bar Association (ABA) lawsuit against the Department of Education (ED), we’re seeing some clarity on the ED’s position on the Employment Certification Form (ECF). The issue is whether the ECF is approval for PSLF purposes. While the ABA…

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