December 03, 2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has moved to significantly scale back its $5 million Biden-era settlement of a student loan servicing case in Pennsylvania federal court, agreeing to a plan that would drop most of its requirements for borrower relief.
January 03, 2025
Student-loan servicer Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency can pause its work on fulfilling a settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while an appeal to the Third Circuit of an "intertwined" settlement with the loan holders plays out, a federal judge ruled Friday.
November 27, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has told a Pennsylvania federal court that student loan servicer Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency shouldn't get to pause its work fulfilling a settlement just because a third party had appealed a separate deal with the loan holders.
November 14, 2024
The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to pause its obligation to pay more than $3.2 million as a part of a settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that is being challenged in the Third Circuit by a third party.
October 02, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge has finalized a proposed $5 million settlement of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau case that alleged pandemic-era servicing failures involving securitized student loans, overruling objections that money manager PIMCO raised on behalf of loan investors.
July 01, 2024
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and multiple student loan trusts have urged a Pennsylvania federal judge to ignore objections from investment giant PIMCO to a proposed $5 million settlement of claims tied to alleged servicing violations by Pennsylvania's Higher Education Assistance Agency.
May 24, 2024
Investment management giant PIMCO told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday that it needs more time to study a proposed $5 million settlement between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a Pennsylvania student loan servicer and multiple student loan trusts, saying its funds are invested in the trusts and may need to consent to the deal.
May 06, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking $5 million in penalties against a Pennsylvania public corporation that services almost $18 billion in student loans and a group of 15 securitization trusts, accusing them in federal court of ignoring or wrongly denying borrowers who requested relief.