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News & Analysis as of May 22, 2013

Student Loans: Some Issues to Consider

by Cozen O'Connor on 11/2/2012

Although these are not the only aspects of student loan policy that will come up in the next legislative session, these issues will drive the discussion regarding student loans. Student loan debt is being reported as the...more

CFPB issues report on servicemember student loan debt

by Ballard Spahr LLP on 10/25/2012

A new CFPB report titled “The Next Front? Student Loan Servicing and the Cost to Our Men and Women in Uniform” focuses on repayment issues faced by servicemembers with private and federal student loans. One of the report’s...more

Financial aid shopping sheet for student loans finalized

by Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/27/2012

A final model “financial aid shopping sheet,” the result of a collaborative effort by the CFPB and the Department of Education, has recently been issued by the DOE. The shopping sheet is intended to serve as a uniform...more

CFPB and State Attorneys General cooperate in military arena

by Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/3/2012

The investigation that led to the settlement announced last week among 20 State Attorneys General and QuinStreet, Inc., the owner of a website that markets educational institutions to military servicemembers and their...more

Executive Order on military educational benefits includes role for CFPB

by Ballard Spahr LLP on 5/1/2012

As reported in a recent blog post by Holly Petreaus, Assistant Director of the CFPB’s Office of Servicemembers Affairs, an Executive Order signed last week by President Obama directs the Secretaries of Defense, Veterans...more