The Department of Education Is Still Trying to Take Students’ Tax Returns

The rights of more than 100,000 borrowers are affected by this court ruling.

Update, March 28, 2019:

Even after a federal judge told it to stop, the Department of Education is still trying to get away with stealing students’ tax refunds.

Five months ago, the court told the Department that it must stop using this aggressive collection method against Everest Massachusetts borrowers. However, the Department stubbornly has only recognized the court’s order as applying to the two named plaintiffs, and continued to seize the tax refunds of other students who are covered by the pending borrower defense claim filed by the Massachusetts Attorney General on behalf of all Everest Massachusetts borrowers.

Because the Department refuses to follow the court’s order in this case, AG Healey recently filed a motion to force the Department to comply with the court order and stop using tax refund offset to collect on any Everest students in Massachusetts. Yesterday, we submitted our own filing in support of that motion. The government opposed.

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