Protecting the Cohort Default Rate from Forbearance Abuse

Report focuses on important changes to the sector, which include the growth of online education, the efforts of for-profit colleges to convert to non-profit status, and the increased use of online program managers (OPMs) by public and non-profit colleges to operate their online programs.

TICAS letter of support to the Maryland Higher Education Commission's 13B.01.03, Classification of Nonpublic Institutions of Higher Education.

Joint letter from TICAS, CLASP, and HLA encouraging policymakers to consider two specific improvements to the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2019 that would further strengthen the bill for the benefit of students and their families.

29 organizations urge the House Ways & Means Committee to take up and pass the Stop EITC and CTC Seizures Act, which would prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from seizing federal Child Tax Credit (CTC) or Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) refunds to pay back student loan debt owed to the U.S. Department of Education.

In September, the Department of Education released a new version of the "Borrower Defense to Repayment" rule that would make it virtually impossible for students cheated by their college to cancel their student loans. Senator Dick Durbin and Representative Susie Lee have introduced a Congressional Review Act challenge to repeal this rule and restore stronger student protections

Testimony of Angela Perry, Policy Analyst, before the Assembly Select Committee on Student Debt about for-profit higher education in California, past and future legislation, and the work that The Department of Consumer Affairs' Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education and The Office of Student Assistance and Relief have done to help students.