HARRISBURG–Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today that Navient, known as one of the nation’s largest student loan servicers, will provide relief totaling $1.85 billion to resolve allegations of widespread unfair, deceptive, and abusive student loan servicing practices and abuses in originating predatory student loans.
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced another important victory in his lawsuit against the nation’s largest servicer of federal and private student loans, Navient Corporation, and its subsidiary Navient Solutions, LLC.
Navient Engaged in Unfair and Deceptive Lending and Failed to Offer Proper Repayment Plans to Students HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit against the nation’s largest servicer of federal and private student loans, Navient Corporation, and its subsidiary Navient Solutions, LLC, over widespread abuses in their student loan origination and servicing businesses. “Navient’s […]
HARRISBURG – Attorney General Josh Shapiro issued a statement in response to an article noting that the United States Department of Education had found deficiencies in Navient’s handling of student loan inquiries:
HARRISBURG—Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced an important win in a decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as part of the Office of Attorney General’s ongoing court battle with Navient, the nation’s second-largest servicer of federal and private student loans.
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced an important, favorable court ruling in his lawsuit against the nation’s largest servicer of federal and private student loans, Navient Corporation, and its subsidiary Navient Solutions, LLC. The legal victory will enable the Attorney General’s legal team to review loan records which Navient had previously refused to provide.
HARRISBURG– Today the U.S. Department of Education canceled $39 billion in federal student loans for 804,000 borrowers. This monumental change resulted from the Biden administration correcting errors in the way federal Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plans counted payments toward forgiveness time for borrowers or borrowers who were directed into the wrong repayment options.
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro, with a bipartisan coalition of 30 Attorneys General, took action today to urge Congress to reject legislation that would block states from preventing and combatting fraud and abuse by the student loan industry.
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced that a bipartisan coalition of 44 Attorneys General reached a settlement with Student CU Connect CUSO, LLC (“CUSO”) that includes more than $168 million in debt relief for more than 18,000 former students of ITT Tech schools nationwide. In Pennsylvania, 570 former ITT Tech students are eligible for $5.3 million in debt relief. The settlement holds CUSO accountable for its participation with now-defunct ITT Tech in subjecting students to deceptive and abusive lending practices. ITT Tech filed for bankruptcy in 2016.
Shapiro: “Rolling back borrower protections hurts Pennsylvanians” HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro today joined a multistate letter with 20 other attorneys general that expresses “profound concern” to the U.S. Department of Education for abdicating its responsibility to millions of student loan borrowers and their families across the country by revoking critical reforms designed to […]
Pennsylvania Attorney General Shapiro leads 18 Other State Attorneys General to Protect Student Borrowers in Letter to Education Secretary DeVos HARRISBURG – Today, Attorney General Josh Shapiro led a coalition of Attorneys General to send a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, demanding the Department of Education stop its systematic rolling back […]
HARRISBURG — In acknowledgement of National Consumer Protection Week, Attorney General Josh Shapiro is increasing awareness of resources available to the consumers of Pennsylvania from the Office of Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
HARRISBURG – Attorney General Josh Shapiro today permanently shut down Equitable Acceptance’s efforts to operate in Pennsylvania, and is requiring the company to cancel nearly $200,000 in debt for its former Commonwealth customers.
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