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    Default Ladies Wrangling with NAVIENT / Student Loan Collectors

    Consumers have filed thousands of complaints with the CFPB against Navient and its predecessor company, Sallie Mae. A Huffington Post analysis earlier this year found that no company had paid out more money in refunds to aggrieved borrowers with private student loans than Navient.

    Federal and state regulators have increased their surveillance of the student loan sector as outstanding debts reach $1.3 trillion and borrowers continue to fall behind on their payments despite the improving economy and generous federal plans that allow borrowers to make payments based on their earnings. Officials at the CFPB have repeatedly said they see parallels between how student loan companies process borrowers' monthly payments and counsel them on their repayment options and the way mortgage companies treated borrowers during the height of the recent housing crisis. Millions of Americans lost their homes as a result of mortgage companies' failures.

    Navient has previously denied allegations that it acted improperly. In a sign of its confidence, Navient has increased how much it pays Timothy Hynes, the company's chief risk and compliance officer, despite its pending regulatory woes.


    Wall Street is meting out punishment as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau readies a possible lawsuit against Navient, a major Department of Education student loan contractor, for allegedly cheating borrowers. The consumer bureau sent Navient a letter on Aug. 19 telling its executives that the agency's enforcement staff had found enough evidence indicating that the company violated consumer protection laws, according to an Aug. 24 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

    The CFPB has been investigating the company for nearly two years, and in its August letter to Navient, the agency said its senior officials are now considering whether to sue the company in court. A group of state attorneys general led by Washington and Illinois has been probing the company for more than a year, amassing evidence that Navient allegedly harmed borrowers with its practices. State banking regulators also have launched an investigation.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0aec9f355dbe5

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    Default Re: Ladies Wrangling with NAVIENT / Student Loan Collectors

    Stripping or student loans. I chose stripping. Would definitely do so again.

    Why? I graduated from college with money in the bank, money in the stock market and cash in my purse. I had no debt. I bought a house six months after graduating from college. I could afford to have my daughter when I was 24 without the need for her father's income to support us.

    Student loan debt is fine for a degree that will make you great money. Think plumbing, HVAC, brick laying, accounting, finance, supply chain management, engineering, computer science, nursing or medicine. Don't borrow money for art, languages, history, political science, any sort of culinary studies, and especially law. If you want to be a lawyer, and no college offers you a full ride scholarship, then don't go to law school. Only the top 10% make enough money to justify the cost. It's ironic, the top 10% all get scholarships to cover the cost of law school. That's how you know if it's worth it or not. The same is true for the MBA if you have an undergraduate business education. Only get the MBA if it's a requirement to progress in your chosen career. It was when I thought I wanted to spend my career in the Fortune 500 world. Now, that I'm a CEO, no one beyond my college alumni club ever asks about my degree.

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