Borrowers who enrolled in a Heald College program on or after the dates specified here may apply for a discharge based
on a borrower defense by doing the following:
Not exact matches
In addition,
borrowers who have lump - sum payments made
on their behalf under a student loan repayment program administered
by the U.S. Department of
Defense may also receive credit for more than one qualifying PSLF payment.
Additionally, as indicated in the first report
on work of the new
Borrower Defense Unit, the Department is applying time limits to curtail claims for relief
by borrowers the Department has found were defrauded.
One of the rules is
on gainful employment, which holds nondegree career education programs accountable when graduates have too much debt; the other is
on borrower defense, which allows student
borrowers defrauded
by institutions to get loan forgiveness.
By completing and submitting a
borrower defense application, you may have all of your federal student loans in repayment placed into forbearance status and have debt collections
on any federal student loans in default stopped («stopped collections status») while ED reviews your application.
This new process for Corinthian students uses a new formula focused
on average post-school earnings
by program to calculate what portion of a
borrower's loans will be discharged if the
defense is approved.
Bottom line: The 2016 rules
on borrower defense have not gone into effect and may be replaced
by new rules that the Department is developing in 2018.
The lawsuit was filed
on Thursday, July 6, and challenges DeVos» decision to pause the
borrower defense rules, which had been finalized
by the Obama administration.
«If the Administration were serious about helping harmed students and protecting students from predatory practices, it would be implementing the
borrower defense and gainful employment regulations without delay and acting
on the tens of thousands of pending loan discharge applications, not dismantling current protections and committing to follow through only
on the 16,000 applications approved
by the Obama Administration.
Four
borrowers,
on behalf of a nation - wide class, seek an injunction to block the administration from applying its recently - announced plan to partially deny student loan relief to which defrauded
borrowers are entitled, and that the Department had previously provided to certain cohorts of Corinthian
borrowers through the
borrower defense application process set up
by the Department.
Joint comments submitted
by more than 50 organizations in response to the Department of Education's plan to conduct negotiated rulemaking
on the gainful employment regulations finalized in October 2014 and the
borrower defense to repayment and college accountability regulations finalized in November 2016.
Regrettably, the Department failed to restore Pell eligibility to
borrowers found harmed
by other school misconduct, including those with valid claims to a
borrower defense to repayment or to discharge based
on their school's false certification of eligibility for financial aid.