Department of Justice (DOJ) officials have filed only one delinquent student loan collection lawsuit since before 2020 election in a downward trend that began in 2011 when nearly 4,500 cases went to court, a new data analysis shows. “Despite student loan debt now topping $1.7 trillion, the latest case-by-case court records analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) show that civil suits filed to recover federal student loan debt have become increasingly rare even before pandemic relief provided a collection moratorium,” TRAC said in a statement on May 19. Based at Syracuse University, TRAC regularly files federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for DOJ data on a multitude of topics and activities, including among others white collar crime prosecution, immigration court actions, domestic terrorism, and Securities and Exchanges Commission filings. “There were no suits filed in April 2021, and only one during the first seven months of FY2021 …