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Disabled Vet Says Took Longer to Get Navient to Correct Errors Than a Tour of Duty

Recently Navient was sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the complaint alleged a number of student loan servicing failures. Christopher Meyer, a disabled veteran, contact me about his experience and said, “I read the complaint filed in federal court. I felt like the CFPB were directly referencing me on page four of the …

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Congressional Update – Disabled Veterans Student Loan Protection Act of 2016

The bill below was recently introduced on Capitol Hill and it involves student loans. If you would like to learn more about the bill, please click the link below. Disabled Veterans Student Loan Protection Act of 2016 H.R. 4845 — Introduced …amend the student loan forgiveness program in the Higher Education Act of 1965 to …

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My Business Failed and I’m a Disabled Veteran

Question: Dear Steve, We bought an existing business – a gym- with an SBA loan. Even though we grew the membership from 80 to 430 within 2 years, the overhead and servicing the loans were crushing us. Enter the $10 per month gym chains and we had no other option than to sell the gym …

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My Husband is a Disabled Vet and the Student Lenders Are Coming After Us

“Dear Steve, My son has 2 Government Student Loans(Sallie Mae & NelNet). He is paying over $300.00 on each one, but they want $816.00. My husband is a Disabled Vietnam Veteran and now the loans are coming after us. They want to garnish his pensions of the difference in payment. I do not work cause …

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Recently Retired from Military and in a Big Debt Hole From Job Loss. – Matt

“Dear Steve, I am recently military retiree (Jun 2012) who was making around $135K, upon retirement and losing my civilian job a few months ago I found myself in a real hole living off about 40% of $135K or about $48K and a small teaching job of $900 per month. TO make a long story …

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I’m a Retired Disabled Veteran And Student Loan Collectors Are Coming After Me. – Francis

“Dear Steve, I am 67 years old and disabiled. I went back to college and graduated 1991. Because of various problems and surgeries, I was put on permanent disability, and was unable to pay back student loan. After a LOT of correspondense back and forth between the collection agencies and the Veteran’s Administration, I was …

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I Am a Disabled Veteran and Drowning in Debt. We Are Considering a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. – Clint

“Dear Lewis, Well, was active duty military for 10 years got hurt and the military pushed me out, I am now a 70% dis vet, working for the FED as a GS pay grade. I just moved from Hawaii back to Wisconsin, now in Hawaii I was making a ton more money than I am …

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