Librarian Sues After Education Department Refuses To Count 9 Years Toward PSLF

Key Points

• A former Virginia law librarian sued the Department of Education in May 2026 after it denied two of her PSLF applications and never ruled on a third, filed in December 2022.
• The Justice Department argued she had to prove most of her own job duties were public service, a test that appears in no version of the PSLF rules.
• ED’s records show 210 eligible payments on her loans,...