Librarian Sues After Education Department Refuses To Count 9 Years Toward PSLF
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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, but only 81 count because the department won’t credit her nine years at the Fairfax Bar Association.
Melissa Scheeren worked at the Fairfax Bar Association’s public law library and pro bono…
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