'She is going so far as to seize the disability benefits that many borrowers with disabilities depend on to survive, all to collect on loans she knows they do not owe,' Student Defense Senior Counsel Alex Elson said.
Student loan representatives from seven states and Washington, D.C., sent a letter Tuesday to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul asking them to erase the federal loans of more than 53,000 student borrowers with permanent disabilities in their jurisdictions.
The letter says those students have received notices that they may qualify to have their loans forgiven under"It is therefore critical that as Secretary you use your regulatory authority and access to borrower information to create the least onerous path to relief for this population, both as they apply for relief and to satisfy the monitoring requirements," the letter, signed by ombudspersons in Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, New York, Virginia, Washington, and the District of...
The ombudspersons say these borrowers have lifelong disabilities and are unable to work or they can't engage in substantial activities because of a physical or mental ailment that has lasted for five years or more. The law"is an important safeguard meant to ensure that any borrower who is unable, due to disability, to work and earn the income needed to repay his or her loan is released from the obligation to do so," the letter adds.was sent Tuesday to DeVos by the National Student Legal Defense Network, a nonprofit law firm, and a coalition of more than 30 other groups asking her to help the roughly 350,000 student borrowers with disabilities nationwide eligible for loan discharges.
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