Al helps work with, facilitate, process paperwork for clients to do all of the following listed below.

Student Loan forgiveness is available once you have entered into an Income Driven Repayment(IDR) plan.  This is given over time and is not immediate.

A discharge of student loan debt is available due to disability, school closure, or from a school that has committed fraud or other unscrupulous practices.

To be eligible for student loan forgiveness, you need to be in an Income Driven Repayment plan (not in default) specific for a Public Service Loan Forgiveness or other types of forgiveness.

Once you are in an IDR, you will need to submit income verification annually, called recertification.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness.  This is a type of forgiveness of student loans.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness is available to anyone working for a Non-profit under Section 501(c)(3) or government agency work:  Teachers, police officers, nurses...for a public hospital, etc are all qualifiers for the PSLF, but the DOE does have a listing of every organization that qualifies for this type of forgiveness.  You do need to have an IDR established and reported with 120 qualifying payments to receive forgiveness of your student loan debt.

There is an opportunity to file an application to discharge your student loan debt if your school has closed down.  You would have to have been currently enrolled in the school and can not have graduated to qualify for this discharge.  Typically the DOE only allows you up to 6 months at the time of school closure to get an application processing.

There are several types of discharge applications of student loan debt geared towards school mis-representation.  Your student loan servicer will know which application is appropriate for a particular situation.

Yes, if you are on Social Security Disability benefits, the DOE can give a discharge of your student loan debt as long as the proper paperwork is provided.  It does have to be a permanent disability.  Veteran’s who are permanently disabled can also be given a discharge of their student loan debt.

“BPQY” stands for Benefits Planning Query and is what the SSA can send out to qualifying disability beneficiaries.  Along with your monthly award amount, it also is specific to a “review period” that the DOE needs to see to determine the severity of your disability.  This specifically needs to show 5+ or more year review period to qualify.

Student loans in default (gone into collections) is not the end of the world!  

You have 2 options:  Consolidate your student loans out of collections into one student loan into an IDR.  To be able to consolidate, you can not have a wage garnishment judgment or a tax offset against you.

Option 2:  Rehabilitation...9 good payments w/ an approved payment amount from the DOE.  Once you have successfully completed the rehabilitation, your student loans will go back to a non default servicer and your default remark will be removed from your credit reports.

Consolidation of your student loans are a very important factor to do if your student loans are in collections.  It will also help if you have multiple loans with poor payment history which will close out your current student loans and get you one positive student loan reporting on your credit reports.

Federal Student loans are provided and guaranteed by the federal government.  There are many benefits to help student loan borrowers out.

Private student loans are set up by a private banker just like any other type of private installment loans.  These require credit qualifying, etc in order to obtain a student loan.  You do not get the privileges that Federal student loans provide.

Taking out student loans for your child is referred to as “Parent Plus” student loans.  These student loans are the parent’s responsibility fully and can not be removed unless the child takes out his/her own private loan(s) to pay them off from the parent’s responsibility.

If your student loans have defaulted, at some point the government will put a tax offset (take your tax returns) against paying off your student loan debt.

If your student loans have defaulted, at some point the government will put a wage garnishment judgement against your student loan debt.

A rehabilitation of your student loan(s) is a program the DOE has set up for student loan borrowers who have defaulted on their student loans.  It’s designed to be a 10 month or 9 good payments which are set up with an approved payment plan, which payment is based on household income, family size, and monthly expenses.  Once a borrower has successfully completed the rehabilitation program, their student loans are placed back with a new servicer and their student loans are reported positively to the bureaus.

DTI (Debt To Income) of student loan debt can be lowered by paying down the principal balance of the student loans.

When a consolidation of student loans is processed, the Department of Ed will take each individual interest rate on each loan and take an average of all the interest rates to come up with the final interest rate on the consolidated student loan.

• Corinthian Colleges
• ITT Technical Institute
• Education Corporation of America (ECA)
• Education Management Corporation (EMC)

When you initially took out student loans, it could have been before 2010.  At that time student loans could be taken out “commercially” called FFELP student loans.  They are privately funded but are serviced and guaranteed by the federal government.  Unfortunately, because of the private funding, they do not qualify for some of the federal programs offered under the “Direct” federal student loans.  The FFELP student loans can be consolidated into “Direct” student loans which then do qualify for all the programs available to borrowers of Federal student loans.

Even though your defaulted student loans have come off of your reports it could be they have gone through the natural timeline of 7 years and been removed.  Unfortunately, they are still on record with CAIVRS(Credit Alert Verification Reporting System) and will be a factor in qualifying or even closing on a mortgage.

Both options allow you to postpone your monthly federal student loan payments. Deferment allows you to postpone your payments, for up to 3 years, without accruing interest (subsidized loans) but does accrue interest on (unsubsidized loans).

Forbearance allows you to postpone your payments but interest will continue to accrue and most likely is only allowed for up to 12 months.

On a STANDARD PLAN, you will pay the same fixed amount each month for the length of the term. On a GRADUATED PLAN, your payments will be lower than what you would pay if you were to stay on the standard plan, but never too low that you aren't paying the amount of interest that is accruing each month.

EXTENDED GRADUATED PAYMENT, under this repayment plan, your payments start small and then increase every two years. Both extended plans lower payments by lengthening your repayment term, but extended graduated repayment also initially decreases your payments based on how much you owe.