Special Allowance Payments (SAP) Special allowance payments were originally established to ensure that
education lenders received a market rate of return on federal education loans.
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The development came after a US Senate report (page 48) revealed that he had
received payments from Collegiate Funding Services (CFS), an
education lender that is now part of J.P. Morgan Chase.
The federal government guarantees FFELP loans against borrower default and ensures that the
lenders receive a market rate of return on the loans despite the lower interest rates paid by borrowers of
education loans.
The New York Attorney General previously criticized
lender - operated call centers in his April 25, 2007 testimony before the US House of Representatives
Education and Labor Committee: «The student calling or emails their questions rightfully expected to
receive disinterested advice and information regarding
lenders.
Widener University had put him on paid leave in April after it was reported that his consulting firm, Key West Higher
Education Associates, had
received payments from Student Loan Xpress and other
lenders for sponsorship of the school as
lender conferences.
The
lender on a PLUS loan is the United States Department of
Education, and the most that you can borrow through this type of loan is the cost of attendance (as determined by your institution), minus any other financial aid that you are
receiving.
The regulations at 34 CFR 682.800 (a) ban
lenders who are
receiving the 9.5 % floor income special allowance payments from discriminating according to the borrower's race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability status, income, attendance at a particular institution within the area served by the authority, length of the borrower's
education program, or the borrower's academic year in school.
Most
lenders that require school certification (approval) will cap the annual loan amount at cost of
education less aid
received (COA - Aid).
«The better your credit score, the better the interest rate you can expect to
receive from
lenders,» notes Maxine Sweet, vice president of public
education for Experian, a global information solutions company.