May 11, 2018 FSA recently announced that customer service performance results for each of the Department of Educations
federal loan servicers for the quarters ending Sept. 30, 2017, and Dec. 31, 2017, are now available in the FSA Data Center.
Send the completed form, with your employer's certification, to FedLoan Servicing, the U.S. Department of Education's
federal loan servicer for the PSLF Program.
If you don't know
the federal loan servicer for your federal student loans, use NSLDS ® to get that information.
You will then have a single
federal loan servicer for all of your federally held loans.
Not exact matches
Visit «My
Federal Student Aid» to view information about all of the federal student loans and other financial aid you have received and to find contact information for the loan servicer for your
Federal Student Aid» to view information about all of the
federal student loans and other financial aid you have received and to find contact information for the loan servicer for your
federal student
loans and other financial aid you have received and to find contact information
for the
loan servicer for your
loans.
To ask questions after you have submitted your
Federal Direct Consolidation
Loan Application and Promissory Note, contact the
servicer for your new Direct Consolidation
Loan.
Bank of America used to be one of the largest
servicers for Federal Student
loans.
If you fail to make payments on your
federal student
loans for 90 or more days, your
loan servicer will report the delinquency to the three major credit bureaus.
If we determine that your employment qualifies, we will then review your payment history (including any payments you made to another
federal loan servicer before your
loans were transferred) to determine how many payments made during the period of employment certified on the Employment Certification form are qualifying monthly payments
for PSLF.
Unlike the electronic version, if you have
federal loans from several
servicers, you need to submit a separate IDR plan recertification
for each lender.
Borrowers apply
for federal student
loan consolidation, where they are able to select the
federal loans they wish to consolidate, the
servicer of the new
loan, and the repayment plan that best fits their financial needs.
If you have a
federal loan,
for example, the DOE acts as your lender, but your
servicer might be Navient (or one of eight other
federal loan servicers).
Each time you took out a
federal loan for college or grad school, you were assigned to one of nine
federal loan servicers.
Lawsuits filed against one of the nation's largest student
loan servicers by the
federal government's consumer watchdog and two states highlight the importance of knowing your options
for repaying student
loan debt.
CFPB TO SCRUTINIZE
LOAN SERVICERS: The final rule issued today will give the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau authority over the largest non-bank student
loan servicers for federal loans, including Sallie Mae, American Education Services, Nelnet, Great Lakes, as well as ACS, Mohela and EdFinancial.
The forbearance or stopped collections will affect all of a borrower's
federal loans that are serviced by a
federal loan servicer (or defaulted and serviced by a private collection agency), including
loans that are not eligible
for a borrower defense to repayment
loan discharge, such as
loans taken out to attend a different institution than the one related to your application.
For the first time in history, this means that the
Federal government will be able to regulate the actions of independent payday lenders, private mortgage lenders and
servicers, debt collectors, credit reporting agencies, and private student
loan companies.
A memo issued by DeVos to James W. Runcie, who oversees
Federal Student Aid (FSA), overturned Obama administration directives requiring FSA to hold student
loan servicers accountable
for working in the best interests of borrowers.
The rules are the same
for all
Federal student
loan servicers, because
Federal loan rules are dictated by Congress and the Department of Education.
In many cases, you can do pretty much everything with your
Federal student
loans for free at StudentLoans.gov, or by calling your
loan servicer directly.
The process
for finding your
loan servicer will be different depending on whether you have
federal or private student
loans.
Bank of America used to be one of the largest
servicers for Federal Student
loans.
But instead of best representing consumers who called their
loan servicer for help to make sure they were on track
for their
federal student
loans to be forgiven the suit alleges, «instead of helping borrowers by giving them correct information, Great Lakes customer service representatives routinely gave incorrect information to borrowers who inquired as to their eligibility
for the PSLF program.»
If a single
servicer were to receive all new
federal student
loan contracts moving forward, then that means that there's no incentive
for them to provide decent customer service to borrowers (because you have nowhere to turn, unless you want to refinance your
federal student
loans in the private
loan marketplace).
For federal loans, you can use the National Student
Loan Data System to find out about the status of your loans and who is the loan servi
Loan Data System to find out about the status of your
loans and who is the
loan servi
loan servicer.
Under this revised plan, the three finalists, all approved under the Obama administration, would vie
for the contract to be the sole
servicer for all
federal student
loans.
For purposes of certain documentation that a borrower must submit within a specified timeframe (for example, annual documentation of income for the income - driven repayment plans), the federal loan servicers have been instructed to extend the deadline for providing the documentation by an additional 15 days for borrowers who live in an impacted ar
For purposes of certain documentation that a borrower must submit within a specified timeframe (
for example, annual documentation of income for the income - driven repayment plans), the federal loan servicers have been instructed to extend the deadline for providing the documentation by an additional 15 days for borrowers who live in an impacted ar
for example, annual documentation of income
for the income - driven repayment plans), the federal loan servicers have been instructed to extend the deadline for providing the documentation by an additional 15 days for borrowers who live in an impacted ar
for the income - driven repayment plans), the
federal loan servicers have been instructed to extend the deadline
for providing the documentation by an additional 15 days for borrowers who live in an impacted ar
for providing the documentation by an additional 15 days
for borrowers who live in an impacted ar
for borrowers who live in an impacted area.
to Education Secretary DeVos expressing concern about the Department of Education's (ED) new plans
for assessing the quality of
federal student
loan servicers and criticizing ED's decision to move to a single student
loan servicer.
(
Federal student
loan borrowers can find their servicer or debt collector by going to the National Student Loan Data System and can go here for some additional resourc
loan borrowers can find their
servicer or debt collector by going to the National Student
Loan Data System and can go here for some additional resourc
Loan Data System and can go here
for some additional resources.)
From the recent actions to remove critical information from consumer notices to wanting to get a single
loan servicer to handle all
federal loans, the current incarnation of ED seems to be moving in a direction that provides less support and help
for debtors.
Lawmakers sent a letter to Education Secretary DeVos expressing concern about the Department of Education's (ED) new plans
for assessing the quality of
federal student
loan servicers and criticizing ED's decision to move to a single student
loan servicer.
Your
loan servicer, the company that handles the billing and other services on your
federal student
loan, can help you choose a
loan repayment plan that's best
for you.
To apply, borrowers must contact their
federal student
loan servicer directly to ensure they are on the most appropriate repayment program and are ultimately eligible
for income - driven repayment forgiveness.
After I submitted the PSLF Employment Certification Form, I was notified that I now have a new
servicer for my
federal student
loans.
You can get information about all of the
federal student loans you have received and find the loan servicer for your loans by logging in to «My Federal Student Aid.
federal student
loans you have received and find the
loan servicer for your
loans by logging in to «My
Federal Student Aid.
Federal Student Aid.»
One of the
federal loan servicers, FedLoan Servicing, is administering PSLF for all Direct Loan borrow
loan servicers, FedLoan Servicing, is administering PSLF
for all Direct
Loan borrow
Loan borrowers.
Remember, with almost anything to do with your
Federal loans, you can do it
for free on StudentLoans.gov or by calling your
loan servicer.
If you're not sure who your
loan servicer is, log in to «My
Federal Student Aid» to find contact information for the loan servicer or lender for your federal student
Federal Student Aid» to find contact information
for the
loan servicer or lender
for your
federal student
federal student
loans.
For a payment to count as one of the required 120 qualifying payments, you must be a full - time employee at a qualifying public service organization on the date that your
federal loan servicer receives your monthly Direct Loan paym
loan servicer receives your monthly Direct
Loan paym
Loan payment.
This site lists all of your
federal loans, along with the contact information
for your
servicer.
Since the passage of a new law that will give
loan servicers collecting payments on
federal student
loan debt the right to «robocall» more debtors, there's been an onslaught of news stories decrying the potential
for abuse.
There are a variety of repayment options available, and your
servicer will use information about your job, your income, and the amount you borrowed in
federal education
loans to help you find the repayment plan that works best
for you.
There are a few things to know about this program, and several steps you would need to take to get potential forgiveness on your
federal loans, we would love to discuss with you this possibility, the process is long and it requires some paperwork and dealing with
servicers who are not always very friendly, but with us, we do all the talking and dealing with them
for you.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal today, the
federal government has sent a letter to mortgage
servicers advising them to improve their efforts to modify mortgage
loans for struggling homeowners.
Schools or their agents are responsible
for reporting Perkins
loans, and the
federal loan servicer handles reporting
for Direct
loans.
On the heels of a letter sent by the
federal government to step up the mortgage
loan modification process, mortgage
servicers met with officials from the Obama administration and provided assurance to improve efforts to modify mortgage
loans for struggling homeowners facing foreclosure.
If we determine that your employment qualifies, we will then review your payment history (including any payments you made to another
federal loan servicer before your
loans were transferred) to determine how many payments made during the period of employment certified on the Employment Certification form are qualifying monthly payments
for PSLF.
Before you contact your
loan servicer to discuss repayment plans, use our Repayment Estimator to get an early look at what repayment plans you may be eligible
for and to receive a comparison of estimated monthly payment amounts
for all
federal student
loan repayment plans.
The Departments of Education and Justice, and the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., announced this past Tuesday a sizable settlement against student
loan servicers Sallie Mae and Navient
for overcharging and imposing excessive fees to military members.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a U.S.
federal government agency, is suing student
loan servicer Navient
for «failing borrowers at every stage of repayment.»