The AFT brought the student debt crisis to court Thursday, filing a lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education for gross mismanagement and out-and-out sabotage of the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. This bold move could serve justice to millions of Americans who work in public service jobs and who are suffering under a crushing burden of student debt.
PSLF enables qualifying public service workers like AFT members—teachers, college faculty and staff, health professionals, and other public sector workers—to discharge the balance on their student loans after 10 years. But the program has failed to deliver on this great promise because loan servicers continue to misdirect and neglect the borrowers they are assigned to help.
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