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We need to ensure the timely implementation of a loan separation application by the end of August 2024 or early September 2024 that ensures borrowers can who filed Waiver Reconsideration Forms and/or Notifications of Intent to Separate Forms can consolidation to Direct and access the promised federal benefits under Biden's reforms (IBR/PSLF recounts and PSLF waiver) applied by December 31, 2024.
Our goal is to get at least 20 offices to reach out to ED directly. We have approximately 270 "warm" offices that have shown interest in one way or another beyond the initial vote for the law. Imagine if we can get ALL of those offices to take action!
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Our focus here is on accessing offices any office that will lend additional support through outreach to ED. At a minimum, we should focus on accessing offices that have already shown some level of support. Your task is to contact your offices (one House representative and two Senators) and communicate the importance of this timeline, the reality of DoE’s general and vague responses to Senator Warner’s office, and the ways they can communicate with DoE. While we want all members to contact their offices, we should, at minimum, mobilize any of the 270 offices that register as “Warm” supporters of the JCLSA. These are offices that have cosponsored, voted in favor of, or sought appropriations for the JCLSA. This includes 18 offices that have actively worked to ensure implementation and funding for the JCLSA over the last 18 months, 92 Senator offices that have shown various levels of support, and 178 representatives that have shown varying support. With enough pressure from the House and Senate offices, we believe the DoE will be unable to ignore its responsibility to develop and release the application in a timely manner. We have specific ways we want these offices to take action. If you live in a district with "warm" offices, you should work to mobilize those offices! |
How do I know if any offices in my district are "warm"?...Navigate to your address on The Do U.S. Part! Map and click the map next to your home for your Congress people's information popup. It will tell you who your House Representative and Senators are and indicate if they are "Cold", "Warm" or "Hot" on the JCLSA You can also use this information to acquire to Legistorm contact information for your office. |
What your outreach looks like... Phone Calls!We know we won’t get all offices to take up our plight; so we need every member to reach out to their respective offices. Let’s see how many we can get.
Okay, but how? What do I need to do? It’s simple, really, and we have an Outreach Resources page to help you prepare. We need members to take the following steps:
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Because of tight timeline constraints, your outreach must be regular and targeted. There is no time to send mail and wait for weeks or months for a response, because that response will likely be insufficient to our needs. There is no room to send an email and wait for days or weeks for a response. You will need to call and email and repeat until you begin to get meaningful responses. We advise members to use existing contacts that they have made in their Congress person's office to expedite communication. If members do not have existing connections, we advise that they request our Legistorm contact information for the relevant staffers in their Congress person's office. Staffers are the most influential people in your Congressman's office and you want them to know you by name by end of the next six weeks. Most likely, some offices willing to help may reach out only once to the DoE. We need more noise than that. Continue to contact your office for updates. We need to have a solid temperature check (See Temperature Check Rubric). It’s possible we won’t get all offices to a warm or hot temperature, but our communication with each other will allow us to better understand the landscape and how many offices are working diligently to see this through to the end. |
Get Staffer Info...1. Find your address on The Do U.S. Part! Map and click the map for your Congress people's information popup.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the popup and select and copy your Congress people's information request to use in your request email or message.
3. In Facebook, use Facebook Messenger to create a message to Kristy Sinkhorn , paste the request information from the popup and send. You can also send an email to [email protected], Subject Line "Legistorm Request" and simply paste the request text from the popup into the email. |