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Reboot Your Life: Tampa Student Loan and Bankruptcy Attorney Blog

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Bankruptcy Payments Permitted to be Directed Toward Principal During Plan

Faced with a nearly impossible standard to discharge federal student loan debt in bankruptcy due to undue hardship, creative debtors’ attorneys and the bankruptcy courts are continuing to create pockets of relief wherever possible. Finding that “non-dischargeability does not immunize the student loan claim from modification,”a bankruptcy court confirmed the…

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Great Decision for a Non-Profit Group (ABA) for PSLF – Denying the DOE’s Attempt to Limit Employer Eligibility

Many people are facing uncertainty about PSLF for all kinds of reasons.  We’ve focused on those who were told they were in the PSLF program only to find out that their loan types didn’t qualify all along, and now they have to start all over.  We also help borrowers who…

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Re-Certification of Income for Federal Student Loans – Can I do it Myself? Should I?

How can you trust your student loan servicer when they don’t follow the law 61% of the time per a recent Inspector General’s Report? Let’s look at a relatively simple chore – re-certification of income under an income driven plan.  What appears to be simple, can have meaningful impact.  If…

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New Median Income Figures are Out for Florida Bankruptcy Debtors – How to Qualify for a Chapter 7

The new median income figures are out this week.  Whether you are above or below these figures is not the only factor that is looked at however.  But many of the expenses allowable under the Means Test have increased and if you were borderline last year, you may qualify for…

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Forbearance Renewals on Federal Student Loans: BDTR Hotline

Many folks who have filed applications for Borrower Defense to Repayment seeking to discharge their federal student loans due to fraud by the school, are running into problems with their servicers sending bills that payments are now due — even though the application is still pending and the loans should…

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