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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="12-1012.1" title_number="12" title_name="Miscellaneous Institutions and Activities" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Maryland Debt Settlement Services Act">
  <text>A debt settlement services provider engaged in student education loan debt relief may not:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Advise, expressly or by implication, that a consumer stop making payments or stop communicating with the consumer’s student loan servicer; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Access or obtain a consumer’s student aid information in violation of federal law.</text>
  </level>
</section>
