Sweet学生贷款和解执行争议11月5日听证：至少1051名借款人逾期未获减免，律师团要求判教育部藐视法庭
代理学生贷款借款人的公益法律组织「掠夺性学生贷款项目」（Project on Predatory Student Lending，PPSL）表示，在 Sweet v. McMahon 学生贷款集体诉讼和解中，至少1,051名集体成员至今没有收到美国教育部依法应提供的贷款免除或退款，相关期限早已过去，部分借款人已逾期等待超过一年半。审理此案的加州北区联邦地区法院定于11月5日举行公开听证，审理借款人一方提出的强制执行和解与判处教育部藐视法庭两项动议。
程序上，借款人律师团先于今年6月18日向教育部与司法部发出「重大违约通知」，指称已有超过1,000名集体成员的减免逾期未付；8月18日，律师团正式向法院提交动议，要求法院强制执行和解、为教育部设定提供全部剩余减免的明确最后期限，并另行提出动议要求判处教育部藐视法庭并予以制裁；10月15日，律师团就两项动议提交了答辩文件。教育部在10月1日的反对文件中表示其已大体履行和解、认为无需再下强制执行令。两项动议均为借款人一方的请求，法院尚未裁定。
Sweet 案2019年6月25日由借款人在加州北区联邦地区法院提起，代表的是「借款人辩护」（Borrower Defense）申请多年被教育部搁置的联邦学生贷款借款人，其中许多人的申请自2015年起无人处理。双方2022年6月22日提交和解协议，法院同年11月16日最终批准。据 PPSL 统计，该和解如今总规模至少达230亿美元，是针对美国联邦政府的最大一笔和解。
和解的「后续组别」（Post-Class）申请人部分同样经历多次期限之争：今年7月17日，联邦第九巡回上诉法院三人合议庭一致驳回教育部试图延长关键决定期限的上诉，使超过17万名未获及时裁定的后续组别借款人保留获得全额和解减免的权利。其中来自和解名单（Exhibit C）学校的申请人决定期限为2026年1月28日，教育部已于3月30日前后发出资格通知，减免应在通知后一年内送达。
11月5日的听证将决定法院是否介入设定新的执行期限与监督安排。集体成员如未收到资格通知，可按 PPSL 公布的指引核查邮箱（含垃圾邮件夹），或向教育部与 PPSL 查询本人减免状态。
Sweet Student Loan Settlement Fight Heads to Nov. 5 Hearing: At Least 1,051 Borrowers Still Await Overdue Relief as Lawyers Seek Contempt Finding Against Education Department
At least 1,051 members of the Sweet v. McMahon student loan settlement class are still waiting for loan discharges or refunds that the U.S. Department of Education was legally required to provide by deadlines that have long since passed, according to the Project on Predatory Student Lending (PPSL), the borrowers' legal team. Some borrowers have been waiting more than a year and a half past their deadline. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has scheduled a public hearing for November 5 on the borrowers' motions to enforce the settlement and to hold the Department in contempt.
The borrowers' lawyers first sent the Education and Justice Departments a notice of material breach on June 18, 2026, alleging that relief was overdue for more than 1,000 class members. On August 18, they filed a motion asking the court to enforce the settlement and set a firm deadline for all remaining relief, along with a motion asking the court to hold the Department in contempt and impose sanctions. They filed replies in support of both motions on October 15. In its October 1 opposition, the Education Department said it has substantially complied with the settlement and that further enforcement orders are unwarranted. Both motions are the borrowers' requests; the court has not ruled.
The Sweet case was filed on June 25, 2019, in the Northern District of California on behalf of federal student loan borrowers whose Borrower Defense applications had been ignored by the Department — many of them since 2015. The parties filed their settlement agreement on June 22, 2022, and the court granted final approval on November 16, 2022. PPSL says the settlement now totals at least $23 billion in relief, the largest ever against the U.S. federal government.
The settlement's Post-Class applicants have also been through repeated deadline fights. On July 17, 2026, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit unanimously denied the Department's effort to extend key decision deadlines, preserving full settlement relief for more than 170,000 Post-Class borrowers whose applications were not decided on time. Post-Class applicants from Exhibit C schools faced a January 28, 2026 decision deadline; the Department sent eligibility notices around March 30, 2026, and relief is due within one year of that notice.
The November 5 hearing will decide whether the court imposes a new enforcement deadline and further oversight. Class members who have not received an eligibility notice can follow PPSL's published guidance to check their inboxes, including spam folders, or contact the Department and PPSL about their relief status.
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