Education Department rescinds Trump-era policy restricting state oversight of student loan servicing companies and debt collectors

Richard Cordray, the head of the Federal Student Aid office, announced new guidance Friday that he argued would “make it easier” for state attorneys general and regulators to get information from the FSA and the companies the Education Department hires to manage the federal student loan program.The new guidance is a reversal of the government’s approach to regulating student loan companies, after the Education Department under then-Secretary Betsy DeVos argued that the federal government should be monitoring the system since