A mortgage servicer called a “furnisher” for purposes of credit reporting is responsible for updates to a borrower’s credit report. Many times following a foreclosure, there is a limited time for the lender to seek a deficiency judgment. Here is Florida it is one year. If a year goes by,…
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Navient Refund Checks!
I’m happy to say that we are starting to see Navient refund checks coming in! A client today received a check for $13,795 which represents payments he had made on a Navient private student loan after June 30, 2021. The remaining balance on these loans were forgiven per the Navient…
Borrower Defense to Repayment Update
We’ve made the difficult decision to not take any further clients who have requested assistance in filing Borrower Defense to Repayment applications. Importantly, it is NOT because the program itself won’t result in possible full forgiveness, we still expect that for many borrowers, but it is taking a longgg time. …
Inflation: What is the Real Rate? How do I Beat That?
Life Isn’t Meant to be Lived Paycheck to Paycheck I know there’s been lots of press about the 8.5% inflation rate that was announced this week. I also know that many people don’t believe that number. Why not? Well, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has been consistently modifying their…
Student Loan Update!!
Our in person student loan presentation went well this week at the annual Alexander L. Paskay Memorial Bankruptcy Seminar – hopefully, our efforts to spread the word about student loan debt relief is getting to the masses! The absolute easiest way to check for updates is our Student Loan Sidebar…
Debt Caps Increase for Chapter 13s — Big Help for Those With Large Student Loans
Whoo hoo, just in time to save one of our Chapter 13s with crazy high student loan balances and an ED POC that was gonna torpedo us. Now we are going to be able to file our adversary to hopefully drastically reduce the private student debt and make our client’s…
Alexander L. Paskay Bankruptcy Seminar is a GO!
After being cancelled for last couple years, the Alexander L. Paskay Bankruptcy Seminar is a GO for March 19-21, 2022 at the Tampa Marriott Water Street in Tampa. I am honored to have been asked to present on a panel regarding student loan strategies, tax issues and dealing with the…
What you Need to Know about the Navient/Attorney General settlement
$1.8 Billion Navient Settlement — Are You Included? We’re starting 2022 off with good news. There is a $1.8 billion student loan settlement between Navient (a loan servicer) and 39 different state attorney generals. In the settlement, Navient agreed to “refrain from informing private loan borrowers that their loans…
FFEL Loans = Second Class Federal Loans
Many folks are receiving payment notices for federal loans even before February when the Great Restart is anticipated. Why is this? A few months ago, Congress finally addressed the older Federal Family Education Loans (FFEL or FFELP loans), and in the expansion to the CARES Act, ensured that all defaulted…
Public Service Loan Forgiveness — What is the PSLF Waiver and What Does it Fix?!
Here’s a link to the video. Please subscribe so we can continue to offer this information free to everyone! Thank you! We are happy to share our thoughts on the new Public Service Loan Forgiveness Waiver announced last month. It truly will fix most all of the problems…