According to the Educational Credit Management Corp., a guarantee agency that manages the student
loans of federal borrowers with an
active bankruptcy
filing, about 72,000 federal student
loan borrowers
filed for bankruptcy in 2008, but only 29 succeeded in obtaining a full or partial discharge of their
loans.
The UCC - 1 is
active for five years, which means that a lender will need to renew the
filing to keep interests protected for
loan terms extending longer than five years.