{"id":108816,"date":"2019-08-29T10:59:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=108816"},"modified":"2019-08-29T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T14:59:04","slug":"ag-james-to-education-secretary-devos-deliver-on-the-promise-to-americas-public-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=108816","title":{"rendered":"AG James to Education Secretary DeVos: Deliver on the promise to America\u2019s public servants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Attorney General Letitia James<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Department of Education data indicates only 864 of 76,002\npublic service loan forgiveness applications have been approved<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attorney General\u00a0Letitia James\u00a0today\u00a0sent a letter<\/a>\u00a0with a coalition of 11 other attorneys general\u00a0to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos urging once again that the U.S. Department of Education\u00a0provide data to help states address the ongoing problems with the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. In today\u2019s letter, the coalition raises alarms about the ongoing mishandling of the PSLF program, noting that borrowers may be forced to choose between public service careers and being able to repay their student loans.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cPromises made must\nbe promises kept,\u201d said Attorney General Letitia James. \u201cTens of thousands\nof Americans were promised this critical financial support in exchange\nfor their service, yet the vast majority have not received a single dime. Once\nagain, we are calling on the Department of Education to rectify this situation\nand ensure that they make good on their commitment to help those who keep our\ncountry moving every day.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PSLF program was created in 2007 to help student loan\nborrowers who aspire to give back to their country or community by working in a\npublic service field. On October 5, 2018, New York Office of the Attorney\nGeneral and a multistate coalition issued a letter<\/a> to the DOE expressing\nconcerns about implementation of PSLF and requested data from the DOE. At that\ntime, the attorneys general requested that the DOE provide information about\nthe program and its plans to reform the program. In response, the DOE\nin July 2019 shared incomplete information that was not fully responsive to the\nstates\u2019 request.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In today\u2019s letter, the coalition reiterated that\ndata from the DOE would help states address the ongoing problems with\nPSLF, but the publicly available data that Secretary DeVos provided states thus\nfar goes only a short way toward a full accounting of the current situation for\nborrowers who are relying on PSLF. Data provided by the DOE indicates\nthat only 864 of 76,002 applications for PSLF have been approved and only 442\nof 12,429 applications to the Temporary Expanded PSLF program have been\napproved. The data shows that tens of thousands of borrowers have been denied.\nTherefore, the coalition has requested better data from the DOE in\norder to examine the scope and source of the problems to assist these borrowers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joining New York Attorney General Letitia James in sending\nthe letter are the attorneys general of California, Illinois, Connecticut,\nIowa, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, and the\nDistrict of Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Department of Education data indicates only 864 of 76,002 public service loan forgiveness applications have been approved Attorney General\u00a0Letitia James\u00a0today\u00a0sent a letter\u00a0with a coalition of 11 other attorneys general\u00a0to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos urging once again that the U.S. Department of Education\u00a0provide data to help states address the ongoing problems with the Public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-crime","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-sj6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Attorney-General-Letitia-James.jpg?fit=2832%2C4256&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}