If you’d like to help organize a debt clinic for faculty at your school, contact us at PSLF@aftmd.org
Since 2016, the AFT has been working to address and abate the student debt crisis. We have hosted thousands of debt clinics, pressed lawmakers for changes and took this fight to the courts. We took on one of the largest loan servicers in the country, Navient, and then in July of 2019, in a groundbreaking legal action, we sued then-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for mismanaging the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and leaving tens of thousands of borrowers with nowhere to turn when their relief was denied.
As of Oct. 12, 2021, AFT reached a settlement in Weingarten v. DeVos. The Department of Education led by Secretary Miguel Cardona agreed to work with us to ensure relief for the countless borrowers who relied on the promise of Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Millions of Americans will now have their loans completely forgiven or will be properly enrolled in a forgiveness program crediting their years of past payments, putting them much closer to full forgiveness.
The AFT’s nurses, educators, public employees, school staff, and higher education staff will all benefit from these changes.
Press release:
US Department of Education Settles with AFT in Public Service Loan Forgiveness Suit
On the Backs of Students and Families: Disinvestment in Higher Education and the Student Loan Debt Crisis