A federal judge has certified a class of former for-profit college students who allege that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the U.S. Department of Education have damaged their credit and access to financial aid by failing to act on more than 210,000 students’ loan forgiveness applications.

The past for-profit college enrollees are seeking to cancel their student loans under the “borrower defense” given the misleading business practices of schools such as Corinthian Colleges and ITT, which shuttered in the wake of federal sanctions a few years ago.