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The Department of Education is making its studentloan collection on-ramp a little longer, announcing that it will start reporting late or missed studentloan payments to credit bureaus in early 2025, a delay from the originally planned start date this month.
The Department of Education yesterday announced a proposed rule that aims to lower the studentloan payments being made by those with studentloan debt, while completely pausing payments for individuals who make less than $30,600 per year. A copy of the proposed rulemaking can be accessed by clicking here.
On its way out the door, the Department of Education has published a memo outlining the steps that the new administration should take to prevent individuals from defaulting on their studentloan payments and the importance of continuing the actions that have been taken by the outgoing administration.
The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, one of the largest studentloan servicers in the country, announced yesterday that it will stop servicing federal studentloans by the end of this year, citing the increasing complexity and cost of handling loans on behalf of the Department of Education.
The Department of Education is considering proposals that would give borrowers “new flexibility” like initial grace periods when its moratorium on studentloan payments ends on January 31, according to a published report.
The Department of Education announced yesterday that it is canceling $415 million in studentloan debt under the borrower defense to repayment plan, including the debts of 1,800 former students of DeVry University. Cancels More StudentLoan Debts, Announces New Regs Coming appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.
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The Chief Executive of one of the nation’s largest studentloan servicing companies is being accused of lying in testimony before Congress, as the companies winds down its operations servicing studentloans on behalf of the federal government.
The Department of Education has announced that 323,000 individuals who have a total and permanent disability will have their unpaid studentloans automatically discharged without having to file any paperwork or applications. billion in unpaid loans. The discharges will wipe out $5.8
For the second time this month, a company that services federal studentloans has announced it will not extend its contract with the Department of Education, choosing instead to focus its resources on its own private studentloan product.
The Department of Education on Friday announced the creation of a new enforcement office that will watch over postsecondary institutions to “vigorously” ensure that rules are being followed and named an individual that should be familiar to many in the accounts receivable management industry to run the office.
The moratorium on studentloan payments has cost the federal government $160 billion in lost assets and the federal government should be ordered to force individuals with unpaid studentloan debts to start repaying them, according to a nonprofit think-tank that is seeking a preliminary injunction against the Department of Education.
The Department of Education yesterday announced a settlement in a lawsuit that will see the debts of 200,000 individuals forgiven, wiping out $6 billion in unpaid loans owed by individuals who had filed borrower defense claims that were left pending for years by previous administrations.
million studentloan accounts that it was servicing on behalf of the Department of Education to Maximus, another loan servicing company. Navient yesterday announced it was transferring 5.6
If anything, Richard Cordray understands that restarting a behemoth like federal studentloan payments is not as simple as flipping a switch and the gravity of the importance in making sure that the restart is done properly is not lost on him, based on a speech that he gave last week before the Education Finance … The post Cordray Talks About (..)
The Department of Education has announced it will suspend the seizure of tax refunds, Social Security payments, and other government payments to collect on defaulted studentloans through November.
The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld a lower court’s ruling allowing a plaintiff’s private studentloans to be discharged as part of his bankruptcy filing, ruling that the provision of the bankruptcy code that prohibits the discharge of “an obligation to repay funds received as an educational benefit” does not apply … (..)
The Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid is planning to release “an entirely new federal studentloan servicing environment” in 2024, according to FSA’s chief operating officer, Richard Cordray, who laid out the changes that are coming in a blog post yesterday.
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The Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced it had sued and obtained a temporary restraining order against a number of corporate and individual defendants accused of pretending to be affiliated with the Department of Education so that they could market studentloan forgiveness programs that made false promises and collected millions in illegal (..)
To Rescind Guidance and Make it Easier to Investigate StudentLoan Collectors appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net. The letter was written by … The post State Regulators Ask Ed. The letter was written by … The post State Regulators Ask Ed.
There is a lot to unpack in today’s episode of “The Young and the Indebted” with the Secretary of Education, the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, and a former presidential candidate all making comments or taking action to address the issue of studentloan debt forgiveness.
Yesterday, it was announced that Richard Cordray — the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — has been hired as the Chief Operating Office of the Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid, which oversees $1.6 trillion of studentloans.
A District Court judge in Michigan has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged an initiative from the federal government seeking to forgive $39 million of studentloan debt, determining the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue. Well, that didn’t take very long.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today took action against National Collegiate StudentLoan Trusts and Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency for multi-year servicing failures.
While still a few months off on the horizon, the date on which individuals with unpaid studentloans may start seeing their paychecks and bank accounts garnished is approaching.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday announced it had filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), alleging that PHEAA illegally collected on studentloans that had been discharged in bankruptcy and provided false information to credit reporting companies.
The Department of Education has unveiled a new website aimed at helping individuals who are seeking debt relief after being defrauded by a college, but critics of the administration’s efforts say the changes are mostly cosmetic, according to a published report. For example, the site estimates … The post Education Dept.
Nearly nine million people who have studentloans have not yet made a payment after the moratorium on studentloan payments ended three months ago, according to a published report that cited information from the Education Department.
The Department of Education, along with the federal government, yesterday announced it had launched its updated income-driven repayment application tool for individuals with unpaid studentloans, a tool that could help reduce the studentloan payments for up to 30 million borrowers.
The CFPB sued studentloan servicer Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency for illegally collecting on studentloans that have been discharged in bankruptcy and sending false information about consumers to credit reporting companies.
The Department of Education yesterday announced it was discharging $1.5 ” The studentloans will be discharged regardless … The post Ed. The Department of Education yesterday announced it was discharging $1.5 ” The studentloans will be discharged regardless … The post Ed.
Department of Education is expected to immediately wipe the slate clean for 22,000 student borrowers seeking Public Service Loan Forgiveness and speed the process for at least 500,000 more. It’s not the broad studentloan forgiveness borrowers may be dreaming of. A limited waiver announced by the U.S.
The Department of Education has announced a new plan to hold studentloan servicers accountable for not harming individuals with stiff penalties that the department has already shown it is willing to put into practice.
Individuals with studentloans will be able to avoid facing collection attempts for one year once the moratorium on making studentloan payments ends, according to guidance released by the Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office last week.
billion in studentloan debt relief for nearly 300,000 borrowers, many of whom were signed up for the administration’s new income-driven repayment program. The administration touted that this latest round of relief raised the total loan forgiveness to $153 billion, for more […]
The Department of Education has released data regarding repayment trends following the end of the studentloan payment moratorium with the intention of noting how many borrowers are making their loan payments on time and how the average payment among those making payments has “nearly” returned to its pre-pandemic level.
The Department of Education yesterday exercised its authority to extend the window to discharge studentloans for individuals who attended schools that closed to cancel $1.1 billion in unpaid studentloans — 43% of which are in default — for former students of ITT Technical Institute.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday announced an enforcement action against the National Collegiate StudentLoan Trusts (NCSLT) and Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) over a series of servicing failures, including mishandling borrower requests during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Education on Friday announced it was canceling an additional $56 million in studentloans for 1,800 individuals who were misled by three different for-profit institutions about their employment and salary prospects and the transferability of credits from the schools to other institutions.
Starting today, the Department of Education is going to begin informing 30 million individuals with unpaid studentloans about their options, letting them know they have until the end of the month to notify their servicers if they wish to opt out of the forgiveness programs.
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