Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a nationwide coalition in calling on the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) to automatically discharge federal student loans for totally and permanently disabled borrowers. Raoul’s student loan ombudsman, along with seven other state student loan ombudspersons, sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and SSA Commissioner Andrew Saul calling on them to proactively reduce the number of steps disabled borrowers must take in order to receive student loan discharge. Raoul’s office and the coalition are urging DeVos and Saul to implement a system that utilizes disability designations already issued by the SSA and shared with the DOE in order to minimize or eliminate the steps eligible borrowers are required to take to receive loan discharge. The coalition explains that the DOE already knows who eligible borrowers are through a matching process with the SSA. Student borrowers who have questions or are in need of assistance can call the Attorney General’s Student Loan Helpline at 1-800-455-2456.