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Student Loan Providers May Get Government Help for One More Year
17 September 08 05:08 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

With problems in the credit markets continuing to plague student loan providers, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a year-long extension of the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act , which allows the secretary of education Read More...

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Kentucky Set to Buy $50 Million Bond So Students Can Get College Loans
18 August 08 03:57 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

To ensure that Kentucky students get the money they need to pay for school, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has authorized the state to buy a $50 million bond from the state’s student loan agency just before fall classes get underway, reports the Lexington Read More...

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Nonprofit Lenders Hurt by Legislation Intended to Help Them
01 August 08 06:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

As lenders continue to scale back or suspend their student loan programs amid a troubled economy and now-unprofitable federal education loans, newer legislation designed to help struggling lenders — nonprofit student loan providers in particular — may be doing more harm than good. Read More...

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Concerns About Access to Student Loans Persist, Study Finds
24 July 08 11:42 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Some financial aid administrators have lingering concerns that students may not be able to get the student loans they need to pay for college this year despite recently passed federal legislation designed to improve students’ access to those loans, according Read More...

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State-Based Loan Agencies May Not Offer Student Loans, Despite Government Intervention
20 June 08 04:18 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Just this year, some 112 student loan lenders have cut back or ended their participation in the federal and private student loan markets, including nine state loan agencies, who have each issued slightly different responses to the industry’s changes, Read More...

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With Government’s Help, Lenders Returning to Federal Student Loan Market
05 June 08 02:08 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A number of lenders who abandoned the federal student loan market in recent months may be returning, in light of a new law designed to keep struggling lenders afloat, according to a Dow Jones Newswires article. Many of the 102 companies that scaled back Read More...

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Education Department to Pay Lenders Full Value for Student Loans
21 May 08 03:56 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The U.S. Department of Education has released details of how much it will pay private lenders in the Federal Family Education Loan Program who sell their loans to the government instead of to capital-market investors, according to an article in The Wall Read More...

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