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The student loan debt crisis in the United States has been steadily worsening over the past 10 years. This month the total outstanding student debt reach a staggering high of $1.465 trillion! Data from the New York Federal Reserve indicates that the unrelenting climb in student loan debt shows no signs of slowing.
Read more: Outstanding Student Loan Debt Reaches Record High
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There can be nothing worse for a student than to have the whole school close down from underneath you, leaving you lost, dazed and confused. Now, it looks like 20,000 students of Brightwood College are locked out of school!
Let's talk about solutions for Brightwood College students:
You can apply to have your Federal Student Loans taken out while you were attending the closed school administratively discharged. What does that mean? It means that the program offered by the U.S. Department of Education, your Direct Student Loan Lender, forgives the loan. The Dept. of Ed. lent you the funds to attend the close school, and their policy is such that if the school closes, it has the option to forgive the loan. However it is not automatic, and you have to qualify.
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The Arkansas Democrat Gazette recently reported that President Trump's administration is granting only partial loan forgiveness to most students approved for help because of fraud by for-profit colleges.
The new administration has adopted a different approach to student loan forgiveness for students defrauded by for-profit colleges. President Trump’s Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, has rolled out a new policy of “Tiered Relief” in which defrauded students are compensated based on their earnings following completion of college programs.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is accusing the Department of Education of getting in the way of its lawsuit against a student loan giant. Last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit against student loan giant, Navient. That lawsuit alleged the student loan company caused borrowers to struggle unnecessarily by steering them towards repayment plans that weren’t in their best interests and ignoring borrowers’ instructions about how their payments should be allocated. Last week, in a letter submitted to the judge overseeing the case, the CFPB claims that Navient isn’t producing documents requested as part of the case that are “essential to identifying the universe of harmed consumers,” because they don’t have permission from the Department of Education.
Read more: CFPB Says DOE is Obstructing Its Lawsuit Against Navient
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit accusing student loan processor Navient Corp. of harming consumers by failing to properly service the debts. Navient, one of the nation’s largest student loan servicers, services about $300 billion in federal and private student loans for 12 million borrowers, about 1.5 million of whom live in California.
Read more: Lawsuit Filed Against Student Loan Servicing Firm Navient
You Have Options!
Contact attorney Chris Bush to find out the best route to your student loan debt relief.
(619) 295-3322“The starting point on all student loan debt resolution plans is to obtain the Student Loan Report from the US Department of Education. This report is vital to answering any student loan question.”
Here's how to obtain your NSLDS report.
Chris Bush, Esq., Student Loan Attorney
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