A federal student loan enters default when a borrower fails to make a payment on it for 270 consecutive days.9 When this happens, the borrower's loan is transferred from the student loan servicer — a private contractor responsible for collecting
payments on behalf of the federal government — to the Debt Management Collections System.10 Borrowers then have 60 days to come to a repayment arrangement with the Education Department.
You must pay a convenience fee — usually 2.49 percent of the tax amount paid — by either Official Payments Corp. or Link2Gov, the two third - party processors who are authorized to collect tax
payments on behalf of the federal government.
Not exact matches
But
government regulators, lawmakers and consumer advocates have voiced a host
of concerns about the practices
of companies that collect
payments on student loans
on behalf of the
federal government and private lenders.
The reforms to MSP reporting requirements under the MMSEA demonstrate that the
federal government is now committed to more aggressively pursuing reimbursement for
payments made
on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries in liability cases.