How will the July 1st ability to decertify employers for "substantially illegal" activities be weaponized?
July 1st is going to give the Dept of Ed a much freer hand in refusing to certify PSLF employer eligibility under the OBBB (or whatever the acronym is).
I'm an employee at a university that has done what we can to protect our international and immigrant students. We have a gender studies department. We have a DEI office. My last payment is this August. What are the odds they're going to refuse to certify my employment?
Who else are they likely to turn their ire against?
Hospitals that do any sort of gender-related care or abortions?
Nonprofits that work with immigrants?
Universities that teach anything having to do with gender or diversity, i.e. all of them?
Any organization that still has a DEI policy?
Or do they just refuse to certify anything and put the onus on the employer to prove that they aren't doing anything "substantially illegal" based on some undisclosed criteria, basically shutting the whole program down?
Any conclusion is going to reflect your presumptions about the current admin's bad faith, but I'm curious what you all think is the realistic set of outcomes.