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Defaulted Student Loans Stuck in Credit-Freeze Induced Limbo
10 February 09 11:52 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Thousands of student loan borrowers who have defaulted on their student loans — including 15,000 additional borrowers each month — are being forced to remain in default despite their efforts to bring their loans back into good standing, The Chronicle Read More...

Filed under: American Student Assistance, college loans, Congressional spending bill, credit crisis, credit freeze, Deanne Loonin, Department of Education, goverment bailout authority, government bailout program, government purchase program, government spending bill, Judy Ellis, Massachusetts student loan guarantor, Michael Ryan, National Consumer Law Center, National Council of Higher Educatiton Loan Programs, NextStudent, rehabilitated student loans, student loan borrowers, student loan defaults, student loan guarantor agencies, student loan guarantors, student loan market, student loan rehabilitation, student loans, SunTrust, Timothy Fitzgibbon

Proposed Legislation Would Prevent Student Loan Lenders from ‘Cherry-Picking’ Schools They Lend To
19 June 08 06:14 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

To ensure all students have access to student loans regardless of what type of school they attend, two Democratic senators introduced legislation Tuesday that would prohibit banks and other lenders from “picking and choosing” which institutions of higher 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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Banks Become More Selective, Leaving Some Colleges Without Student Loans
02 June 08 05:49 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Students at community colleges, for-profit universities, and other less competitive institutions may soon have trouble finding a lender willing to offer them federal student loans. Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, PNC, and SunTrust are no longer offering student loans to certain colleges — schools that the banks have determined tend toward higher default rates, fewer borrowers, and small loan amounts that make business less profitable. Read More...

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