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Note to Families: Financial Aid More Competitive, But Not Out of Reach
26 January 09 05:09 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

With more families applying for financial aid — applications are already up 10 percent above last year’s record — and lending for private student loans drying up, families’ ability to find available financial aid is becoming more difficult, reports the Read More...

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Audit of State Student Loan Agency Calls for Major Reform
21 August 08 02:23 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner has recommended sweeping changes for the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency a year after the state student-loan agency was found to be lavishly overspending on internal operations, according to Read More...

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Massachusetts College Students Lose Funding Source for Student Loans
29 July 08 01:41 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

For the first time in its nearly 30-year history, The Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority won’t be offering student loans this fall to the 40,000 borrowers it serves, according to an article in The New York Times (“ Agency in Massachusetts Is Read More...

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