Greetings,

Your action is needed immediately. Congress is currently crafting legislation that would drastically alter the student loan industry in the country. The work performed by organizations such as HESC would be drastically impacted.

Please follow the link below to tell Senators Schumer and Gillibrand that:

• HESC employees provide vital services to college students, their parents, and high school students throughout New York State;
• The expertise of HESC employees, who have knowledge of how to finance a college education, should be utilized for this new program.

Subject: Protect Critical Higher Education Services

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

As an employee of the Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC) and a member of CSEA Local 1000, I am very concerned about the pending changes in student loan reform that would affect guaranty agencies like HESC.

While I understand that we will continue to service current Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) loans, I am concerned that the College Access and Completion Fund (CACF) in the House-passed bill will neither sustain our jobs or the important work we do to support more than 1.2 million students attending the 300 colleges and universities in New York. We assist middle and high school students and families by promoting the value of higher education and offering counseling services to finance higher education. And our work saves millions of taxpayer dollars by keeping default rates low.

I urge you to protect the important services we do by supporting additional funding for financial literacy, default aversion, and collections and specifying a portion of funds for these services during the Senate's consideration of this bill.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

cc:
Anna Fodor