Letters to Regulators: Letter to the CFPB on the Need for Access to the Online Complaint System in Spanish
AFREF joined a letter to the CFPB highlighting the need for access to their online complaint system in Spanish.
Government Category: Advocacy Documents
Letters to the Administration: Advocates Urge President Biden to Delay Restarting Student Loan Payments Given New Omicron Variant and Ongoing System Failures
AFR and over 200 other organizations joined a letter urging President Biden to delay restarting student loan payments given the new Omicron variant and ongoing system failures.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to Treasury in Response to Request for Comment on Small Dollar Loan Program Application
AFREF, CRL, CFA, and NCLC sent comments to the Department of Treasury in response to their request for comment concerning the Small Dollar Loan (SDL) Program Application.
Letters to Regulators: Memo to ED Supporting Continuity of Education From Carceral Setting to Reentry In Regulations on Pell Grants for Prison Education Programs
AFREF joined a memo to ED establishing their obligation to support education in reentry as Pell has been reinstated for incarcerated individuals and more individuals who will now begin a postsecondary education inside will not finish their degree within the correctional setting and will instead have to finish during reentry. The paper also demonstrates the types of support Prison Education Programs (PEP) could provide to help with the ‘education continuum’ from college inside to education outside.
Letters to Congress: Civil Rights Groups Letter of Support of Saule Omarova’s OCC Nomination
AFR, joined by 14 other civil rights, social and racial justice, and immigrant organizations, sent a letter to Congress in support of President Biden’s nomination of Professor Saule Omarova to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Letters to the Administration: Letter Urging OMB and OIRA to Implement the January 20th Memo on Modernizing Regulatory Review
AFREF joined a letter urging the Biden Administration to immediately begin the process of implementing reforms outlined in the January 20th memo on “Modernizing Regulatory Review.”