Hits keep on comin' - school fraud claims to require more proof

so while trump tweets bannon's quotes in wolff's book, march towards watering down functionality of ever helped defend ordinary american predation industry segments continues. betsy devos seeks move needle towards universities , away students in cases loan forgiveness sought on basis of fraudulent representations schools.

ed department considering more stringent rules on loan forgiveness fraud victims

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trying change obama-era rules, trump administration 1 step closer making more difficult students have loan debt wiped clean in cases involving fraud universities.

department of education has been making incremental moves toward watering-down policies months, draft proposal obtained politico, lays out administration's new vision, places higher burden of proof on students seeking obtain debt forgiveness , requires applicants individually present evidence college's deception intentional.

existing program, called borrower defense repayment, provides relief federal student loan borrowers attended school misled them or engaged in other misconduct in violation of laws.

education secretary betsy devos convened special committee rewrite policy last june saying regulations "overly burdensome , confusing" , need streamlined.

"it department's aim, , administration's commitment, protect students predatory practices while providing clear, fair , balanced rules colleges , universities follow," devos said in statement @ time.

according politico, draft proposal says applicants have establish "clear , convincing evidence" of fraud claim. change standard set under president barack obama required "preponderance of evidence."
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in meantime administration has apparently suspended review of applications debt forgiveness, , there's backlog of fifteen thousand of them file since trump took office on january 20th, 2017 through july 2017.

further excerpt:

a department spokeswoman explained moratorium on reviewing new applications remain until new system adjudicate pending claims had been developed.

pbs reports that in final year of obama administration department approved more 28,000 claims filed former students of cornithian colleges. claims totaled $558 million.

in june, npr reported attorneys general 18 states , washington, d.c., filed suit against devos , department, accusing devos of breaking federal law , giving free rein for-profit colleges rescinding borrower defense rule.

rule had been put on hold less 1 month after devos said agency re-evaluate it.​

 

guilty until proven innocent?

 

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