Democrats Call For Investigation Into Secretary Betsy DeVos Over Loan Forgiveness Formula
Article/Op-Ed in Forbes
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June 17, 2020
Wesley Whistle wrote in Forbes about calls to investigate Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for possible violations of of the Privacy Act of 1974 and undermining legal protections of student borrowers.
Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) have called for an investigation into Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for possible violations of the Privacy Act of 1974 and undermining legal protections of student borrowers.
Peters and Maloney wrote to the Department of Education’s Acting Inspector General, asking her to investigate allegations that DeVos illegally used information from the Social Security Administration to write a new loan forgiveness formula. The new formula was part of the “borrower defense” rule that allows the Secretary of Education to discharge the debt of student borrowers who were defrauded by their colleges.
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