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Education settlements

11 open records, sorted by soonest deadline. Official searches with no deadline come last.

Education settlements pay students, borrowers and applicants over the conduct of a school, lender, servicer or test provider: misrepresented programs, servicing errors, fees, and data incidents at institutions. Government redress appears here too, where a state attorney general or federal agency recovered money and is distributing it, usually automatically.

The class is often defined by enrollment or loan dates, and the claim form typically asks for the school or loan account rather than receipts. The record states what the basic claim needs and links to the official page.

Filing is free. Only the administrator or agency decides eligibility.

Class-action settlementEducation

NCAA tennis forfeited prize money settlement

The NCAA has put $2,000,000 into a settlement fund for college tennis players who gave up tournament prize money to protect their eligibility. The damages class is people who…

Deadline
February 8, 202790d left
Covers
Mar 19, 2020 – Nov 21, 2025
Amount
Share of a $2M fund
CFPB consumer paymentEducation

Monster Loans advance-fee CFPB redress

The CFPB's case covered Monster Loans, which it says obtained credit-report data on millions of student-loan borrowers under a false pretext, and five debt-relief companies that…

Deadline
See official notice
Amount
Varies — paid automatically, no claim form
CFPB consumer paymentEducation

Prehired income-share loan CFPB redress

Prehired sold a for-profit software-sales training program costing up to $30,000 and, the CFPB and eleven states alleged, told students the income-share financing behind it was…

Deadline
See official notice
Amount
Varies — paid automatically, no claim form
CFPB consumer paymentEducation

Timemark student-loan advance-fee CFPB redress

Timemark telemarketed federal student-loan debt-relief services and, the CFPB found, charged up to $699 in advance fees for paperwork borrowers could file themselves at no cost.…

Deadline
See official notice
Covers
Jan 1, 2016 – Oct 31, 2019
Amount
Varies — paid automatically, no claim form
CFPB consumer paymentEducation

Performance SLC advance-fee CFPB redress

The CFPB found that Performance SLC charged federal student-loan borrowers roughly $1,000 to $1,450 in upfront fees to file paperwork they could have filed themselves for free,…

Deadline
See official notice
Amount
Varies — paid automatically, no claim form
CFPB consumer paymentEducation

Western Benefits Group advance-fee CFPB redress

Western Benefits Group telemarketed student-loan debt-relief services and, the CFPB found, charged advance fees while implying it was connected to the Department of Education and…

Deadline
See official notice
Covers
From Jan 1, 2016
Amount
Varies — paid automatically, no claim form
FTC refund programEducation

FTC University of Phoenix Settlement

The FTC has refunded more than $49 million to people who paid University of Phoenix, which it says advertised deceptively by claiming ties to employers such as Microsoft, Twitter,…

Deadline
See official notice
Amount
Varies — paid automatically, no claim form
FTC refund programEducation

FTC Coaching Department Refunds

The FTC is mailing another 7,943 checks totaling over $252,000 to people who lost money to the business coaching scheme run under the names Coaching Department and Apply Knowledge…

Deadline
See official notice
Amount
Varies — paid automatically, no claim form
FTC refund programEducation

FTC Career Step Refunds

The FTC is sending 42,794 payments totaling more than $15.5 million to people who paid for training programs from Career Step, an online career-training company the FTC accused of…

Deadline
See official notice
Amount
Varies — paid automatically, no claim form
FTC refund programEducation

FTC Warrior Trading Refunds

The FTC is sending 17,121 payments totaling over $410,000 to people who paid for Warrior Trading's day trading programs, a second round after more than $2.4 million went out in…

Deadline
See official notice
Amount
Varies — paid automatically, no claim form
FTC refund programEducation

FTC DeVry Refunds

The FTC is mailing 5,942 checks to former DeVry students who got an earlier payment but never cashed it; the agency has returned more than $49 million since the first checks went…

Deadline
See official notice
Covers
Jan 1, 2008 – Oct 1, 2015
Amount
Varies — paid automatically, no claim form

Common questions

Is this the same as student loan forgiveness?
No. These are settlements and redress programs that pay money or cancel specific debts over specific conduct. Federal forgiveness programs are run by the Department of Education and are not settlements.

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