Not exact matches
When a borrower has a defaulted
federal student loan (a
loan that is more
than 270 days past due), the government can seize certain income and assets from the borrower
without a court order.
For
student loans without a co-signer, their interest rates are relatively low - though potentially higher
than federal student loans.
Meaning the
Federal Government has more
than $ 1 Trillion dollars in issued
student loans without any risk evaluation being done, and all this debt that so many American's have affects them in other ways, primary in their credit score.
In 2016, more
than 1 million borrowers defaulted on their
federal direct
student loans — meaning they went 361 days or more
without making a payment, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.1 Most of those borrowers were defaulting for the first time, but about 94,000 were defaulting for the second time.