“The Lost Ten Years”: Sometimes I get a little focused on the more unique and “outside the box” solutions that I tend to blog about, and I forget that little things are just as important to obtaining the right result. So I hope to publish a series of Real Life…
One of our most successful cases this month was the discharge of private student loans for our client who attended a Caribbean medical school. The key was that the foreign medical school was not listed on the Federal Schools Codes List as being eligible for federal funding. That particular fact…
What should you do if you are sued by NCSLT for student loans? In recent years, lawsuits brought by the National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts (NCSLT) has become an epidemic. Defending these cases can be fun and rewarding. Often, consumers are faced with a lawsuit for tens of thousands of…
In examining the typical debt that a person lives with nowadays, Sorboni Banerjee, Fox News Consumer Reporter, interviewed Tampa, Florida Student Loan Attorney Christie Arkovich for a news story on Monday. The portion dealing with student loan debt is copied below: Christie Arkovich specializes in helping people negotiate their student…
Fannie Mae introduced new programs on April 25, 2017 allowing student loan borrowers to refinance their student loans into their home mortgage. Fannie Mae explained that this would open home ownership to more candidates and reduce interest rates from what is often 6-8% to a more manageable 4% under present…
My friend Shawn Yesner interviewed me on his Crushing Debt Podcast that is now available Live: THE CRUSHING DEBT PODCAST IS NOW LIVE. SUBSCRIBE USING THE LINK BELOW: iTunes . Stitcher . Google Shawn M. Yesner, Esq. Yesner Law Podcast – Episode 50 Questions like this are asked and answered: Are you…
In my continued quest to help get the word out about things that can be done NOW to help relieve student loan debt, I was offered the opportunity to speak to about 100 bankruptcy attorneys on a panel about FDCPA violations. We are constantly on the lookout for consumer collection…
Do you have Navient as your student loan servicer? Are you happy with them, do they do a good job? Most of our clients despise Navient, and much of what Navient does may actually be illegal. The CFPB filed a lawsuit against them yesterday alleging consumer law violations under the…
The CFPB announced in mid 2016 that it was looking more closely at student loan servicers (companies that collect payments from borrowers) and their role in the increased student loan defaults. It has announced this as one of their priorities for 2017. Last fall, the CFPB issued a joint statement…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just released a snapshot this week on the excess financial problems that student loan debt is causing our older population. The CFPB reports that in 2015, nearly 40% of federal student loan borrowers age 60 and older were in default. I’d venture to say that…