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American Bar Association PSLF Case Gets Moving

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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Update on ABA lawsuit against Department of Education

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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Sneak Peek: Department of Education PSLF Decision-Making

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

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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President Trump and Future of PSLF

Since President Trump has been in office, we have seen a rise in concerns of the future PSLF. We do not believe PSLF will be retroactively eliminated, for a number of reasons, some of which we blogged about earlier. We

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Lawyers Sue Department of Education for PSLF

On December 20, 2016, the American Bar Association (ABA), a very powerful lawyer organization filed suit against the Department of Education for retroactively denying lawyers eligibility under PSLF. The ABA is a professional membership organization for lawyers that does a lot of

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PSLF Statistics Released on Dec. 20, 2016

On December 20, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid (FSA) office posted a series of updates to its data center, a collection of key performance data about the federal student aid portfolio. The updates include a report

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Tracking PSLF: Now on Paper Statements

As we mentioned before, keeping track of PSLF payments just got easier. The PSLF qualifying payments now appear on your paper statements. Here’s a scanned, redacted copy of what it looks like: The PSLF number on the statement lists only

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PSLF Statistics

Since PSLF is a relatively new program, we have had to guess at the number of student borrowers who will eventually benefit. Now we have some solid statistics from the Federal Student Aid Data Center. We’re pleased to see so

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PSLF Bill Updates Are Coming!

FedLoan Servicing, the official PSLF loan servicer, will be adding information to their billing statements tracking the total number of qualifying PSLF payments for each loan. This makes it much easier to keep track of PSLF payments. Previously, the only

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