Account Recovery

APRIL 15, 2024

billion in student loan 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 […]

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Account Recovery

MAY 15, 2023

The moratorium on student loan payments has cost the federal government $160 billion in lost assets and the federal government should be ordered to force individuals with unpaid student loan debts to start repaying them, according to a nonprofit think-tank that is seeking a preliminary injunction against the Department of Education.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

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 student loan forgiveness programs that made false promises and collected millions in illegal (..)

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Account Recovery

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A petition is being organized — and so far 35,000 individuals have signed it — asking the Department of Education to cancel their student loan debts. Issues with repayment and other concerns have led 40,000 individuals to go on a “student debt strike,” according to a published report.

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Account Recovery

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Department of Education has announced a new plan to hold student loan servicers accountable for not harming individuals with stiff penalties that the department has already shown it is willing to put into practice.

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Account Recovery

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The Department of Education announced yesterday that it is canceling $415 million in student loan debt under the borrower defense to repayment plan, including the debts of 1,800 former students of DeVry University. Cancels More Student Loan Debts, Announces New Regs Coming appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.

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Account Recovery

JULY 9, 2021

The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, one of the largest student loan servicers in the country, announced yesterday that it will stop servicing federal student loans by the end of this year, citing the increasing complexity and cost of handling loans on behalf of the Department of Education.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Department of Education is considering proposals that would give borrowers “new flexibility” like initial grace periods when its moratorium on student loan payments ends on January 31, according to a published report.

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Account Recovery

JUNE 24, 2022

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.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

A District Court judge in Michigan has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged an initiative from the federal government seeking to forgive $39 million of student loan debt, determining the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue. Well, that didn’t take very long.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Less than five months after it announced it was exiting the student loan servicing business, the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency — more commonly known as PHEAA — disclosed on Thursday that it had reached an agreement with the Education Department to extend its contract for one year to allow more time to transition students (..)

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Account Recovery

APRIL 29, 2024

It was announced on Friday that Richard Cordray is stepping down as the chief operating office of the Office of Federal Student Aid, the arm of the Education Department responsible for overseeing its $1.6 trillion student portfolio.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

The only good thing that happens when an individual defaults on his or her student loan is that debt collectors make money, according to an Undersecretary at the Department of Education who was speaking during a virtual panel discussion earlier this week.

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Account Recovery

OCTOBER 25, 2023

An annual report released yesterday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s education loan ombudsman notes that three out of every four complaints filed by consumers about student loans had to do with how those loans are being serviced and collected, and references “coercive debt collection practices” related to the collection (..)

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Account Recovery

AUGUST 23, 2021

The Chief Executive of one of the nation’s largest student loan servicing companies is being accused of lying in testimony before Congress, as the companies winds down its operations servicing student loans on behalf of the federal government.

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Account Recovery

OCTOBER 11, 2021

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.

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Account Recovery

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

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 student loans through November.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

The Department of Education has announced that 323,000 individuals who have a total and permanent disability will have their unpaid student loans automatically discharged without having to file any paperwork or applications. billion in unpaid loans. The discharges will wipe out $5.8

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Account Recovery

JULY 22, 2021

For the second time this month, a company that services federal student loans has announced it will not extend its contract with the Department of Education, choosing instead to focus its resources on its own private student loan product.

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Account Recovery

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If anything, Richard Cordray understands that restarting a behemoth like federal student loan 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 (..)

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

million student loan 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

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Account Recovery

JULY 19, 2021

The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld a lower court’s ruling allowing a plaintiff’s private student loans 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 … (..)

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APRIL 14, 2023

The Supreme Court yesterday decided not to block a settlement that will cancel as much as $6 billion in unpaid student loans, after three colleges sought the high court’s intervention to detail the settlement. The three schools — Everglades College, Lincoln Educational Services Corp.,

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

Hands Out Student Loan Contracts to Six Companies, Toughens Contract Terms appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net. The … The post Ed.

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MAY 4, 2021

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 student loans.

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JUNE 22, 2021

A majority of Americans are in favor of blanket student loan forgiveness, according to the result of a nationwide survey released last week.

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Account Recovery

MAY 19, 2022

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 student loan debt forgiveness.

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MARCH 31, 2021

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JULY 8, 2021

To Rescind Guidance and Make it Easier to Investigate Student Loan 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.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

A lawsuit was filed on Friday by the New Civil Liberties Alliance against the federal government, seeking to block a plan that would forgive $39 billion of student loan debt, claiming the violates the Appropriations Clause of the Constitution because only Congress has the authority to cancel debts owed to the Treasury Department.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

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 student loans, a tool that could help reduce the student loan payments for up to 30 million borrowers.

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Credit Corp

MARCH 21, 2023

million Americans have student loan debt, which totals over $1.7 If you owe tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt, you’re not alone. million Americans have some form of federal or private student loan debt. Table of contents: Average student loan debt How many Americans have student loan debt?

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Nerd Wallet

OCTOBER 7, 2021

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 student loan forgiveness borrowers may be dreaming of. A limited waiver announced by the U.S.

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Nerd Wallet

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The White House has once again extended the federal student loan payment pause as it battles lawsuits threatening to derail its sweeping student debt forgiveness plan. Students may be off the hook for payments until summer 2023, the Department of Education said Tuesday. Eliza Haverstock writes for NerdWallet.

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Nexa Collect

JUNE 27, 2023

Recovering unpaid student loans is a systematic process. Just like mortgage recoveries, the steps can vary depending on the jurisdiction and the terms of the loan. Offset Tax Refunds and Government Benefits : For federal student loans in the U.S.,

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JUNE 15, 2021

Richard Cordray, the former Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who is now running the federal government’s student loan program, sat down for an interview with the Washington Post that was published a few days ago.

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Consumer Finance

MAY 2, 2022

Numerous student loan borrowers recently submitted complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) about companies that promised them student loan forgiveness or loan forbearance in exchange for fees amounting to hundreds or thousands of dollars. This is fraud.

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