Student-loan borrowers are legally entitled to debt relief — but they’re still waiting for it to arrive, a new court filing says.
The Project on Predatory Student Lending — a borrower advocacy group — filed a new motion in its years-long lawsuit to get relief for thousands of defrauded borrowers.
In July, a federal court denied the Trump administration’s request to delay relief under the Sweet v. McMahon settlement, which has provided $23 billion in relief to over 500,000 borrowers. Now, PPSL says that over 1,000 members of the settlement class are still waiting for loan discharges or refunds that the Education Department “was legally required to provide by deadlines that have long since…