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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...

Filed under: bond sale, bridge financing, bridge loan, cash-strapped lenders, college loans, Education Department, Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act, financial aid, H.R. 5715, Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority, Kentucky Post, Kentucky students, Lexington Herald-Leader, Massachusetts, MEFA, NextStudent, private placement bond, state student loan agency, Steve Beshear, Student Loan People, student loans, U.S. Department of Education

Number of Students Applying for Federal Financial Aid Goes Up Almost 20%
12 August 08 04:21 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

While college enrollment is only expected to grow by 300,000 students this year, some 1.3 million additional college students have already applied for federal financial aid — an increase of 17 percent, according to an article in U.S. News World Report Read More...

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Sex Offenders May Lose Pell Grant Eligibility Under Revised Higher Education Act
04 August 08 04:49 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Starting July 1, 2009, sex offenders confined in treatment centers throughout the country may no longer be eligible to receive need-based federal Pell Grants , under a new provision of the reauthorized Higher Education Act, according to an article in Read More...

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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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Medical Residents Losing Ability to Defer Student Loans for 'Economic Hardship'
10 June 08 04:50 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

Beginning next year, medical school residents will no longer be eligible to defer their federal student loans because of new criteria the government will use to determine “economic hardship,” according to an article in the American Medical News (“ New Read More...

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College May Be Stripped of Its Ability to Offer Some Federal Student Loans
29 May 08 01:36 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The federal government is considering revoking a college’s ability to offer subsidized federal student loans — namely Perkins and Stafford loans — as allegations surface that the school, Technical Career Institute , has been paying off the loans of some 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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President Bush Signs Legislation That Boosts Availability of Student Loans
08 May 08 09:15 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

On May 7, President George Bush signed into law legislation intended to help stabilize the $85-billion student loan industry and to avert a predicted shortage in student loans. The law will allow the U.S. Department of Education to buy bundled student Read More...

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