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Anticipating a Falloff in Student Loan Defaults
22 October 09 12:47 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

After hitting a new high of $443 million in charge-offs on its student loans this past quarter, major student lender Sallie Mae anticipates a slowdown in these student loan defaults, the company announced during its third-quarter earnings call yesterday. Read More...

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Survey Shows New England Families Can Still Access Federal Student Loans, Despite Loss of Lenders
11 September 08 03:29 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

According to a regional survey of financial aid officers from 214 New England colleges and universities, students and parents have had few problems accessing federal student loans this year, but financial aid administrators have lingering doubts about Read More...

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Proposed Bailout for Massachusetts Student Loan Authority Uncertain
15 August 08 06:42 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A third attempt to generate liquidity for the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority may be too little too late for some 40,000 Massachusetts college students. With proposals from both the state’s governor and treasurer fizzling out, the student loan agency is attempting to raise funds from large investors through a new public bond offering — a deal that wouldn’t be finalized until September. Read More...

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Governor Asks Pension Board, State’s Colleges to Help Keep Massachusetts Student Loan Provider Afloat
07 August 08 01:46 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A week after the cash-strapped Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority announced that its 40,000 borrowers would have to find a new private student loan provider , Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has asked the Massachusetts pension fund to invest Read More...

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Governor Launches Website to Help Massachusetts Families Find Student Loans
07 August 08 04:32 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has set up a financial assistance website to help the 40,000 families who were previously served by the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority to find a new student loan provider for the 2008–09 academic year, following 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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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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