If you’ve been following along with the mess that is Tuition Answer private student loans serviced by Navient, there is an update. In 2016 I wrote at length about the misinformation Navient was giving consumers about Tuition Answer private student loans. As I said in this post, Navient was telling investors the loans might not …
Question: Dear Steve, I filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2010 and my tuition answer loans look like they were included in the list of debtors as “Chela” at the time. Originally taken out through Sallie Mae. I was made aware that they would not be dischargeable because they were student loans. I’ve rehabilitated them …
Question: Dear Steve, I have Tuition Answer loans and did a Chapter 7 in 2013. My loans were not discharged, not even mentioned, since they were deemed “cannot be discharged” in bankruptcy. At that time, I was unemployed and collecting state welfare, still paying on my loans so I would not go into default. Now …
Navient has had a loss in a lawsuit regarding Tuition Answer Loans. United States Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth Strong has issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) saying “Navient is restrained and enjoined from taking any acts to collect on Tuition Answer Loans held by the Plaintiffs and the Putative Class Members, as the class is described …
In an opinion written by United States Chief Bankruptcy Judge Dale Sommers in Kansas Navient was just slapped down a bit. In 2012 I first started talking about the fact not all student loans are protected in bankruptcy. Since then there have been efforts by some, especially attorney Austin Smith to get the courts to …
Just by looking at the facts surrounding dealing with private student loans and bankruptcy discharge, it appears more private student loans should be eligible for elimination as they are not protected. But lenders have either taken to fighting hard to prevent discharge or smaller lenders seem to quietly give up and let the debt be …
Let’s hope that August 31, 2020, can be remembered as an important day in the fight to break student loan debtors free from the lifelong debt slavery of student loans. The appeal court opinion in a case involving the discharge of Navient private student loans was McDaniel v. Navient. This case involved Navient Tuition Answer …
Justice takes time. In 2016 I first wrote about Navient and Sallie Mae student loans that clearly appeared to be eligible for and dischargeable in bankruptcy if people had filed. See this post for more. At issue was the fact the student loans pushed by then Sallie Mae were not protected in bankruptcy from discharge …
Date Received: 2018-01-18T00:00:00 Product: Private student loan Issue: Struggling to repay your loan Consumer Consent Provided to Share Complaint: Consent provided Consumer Complaint: In XX/XX/XXXXI received offers for Tuition Answer loans from XXXX XXXX, ppaid to borrower ( myself ) as a single parent to assist the needs for my son beginning to attend XXXX. …
Private Student loans are very dischargeable in bankruptcy and I’m going to show you are. These types on loans can be as dischargeable as a credit card. Let’s take a look at the Bankruptcy Code. Section 523(a)(8) of the Bankruptcy Code (2005) states: unless excepting such debt from discharge under this paragraph would impose …