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Navient Is Quietly Forgiving Private Student Loans Amid Pressure From Lawmakers | Money
The existence of Navient’s new discharge program largely came to light when the PPSL launched a campaign on May 30 to encourage borrowers to apply. The nonprofit legal organization also released a step-by-step guide to request loan forgiveness.
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Navient debuts private student loan forgiveness, and other student loans news | Bankrate
If you were defrauded by your school and have student loans serviced through Navient, the servicer is now offering a simplified route to student loan forgiveness. The Project on Predatory Student Lending (PPSL) recently discovered that the servicer now offers borrowers the chance to apply for loan discharges. However, Navient never publicized the process.
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Borrowers urged to apply for Navient's private student loan forgiveness | Fox Business
There's been much ado about federal student loan forgiveness with little relief directed to students holding private student debt. However, a little-known program directed by private student loan lender Navient is forgiving private loans for borrowers seeking relief on the grounds that their school lied to them.
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Some student-loan borrowers with private debt have a chance to get their balances wiped out — but they have to ask for it | Business Insider
while Navient has a process for defrauded borrowers to get relief, many of them might not know about it because they have to request an application. The Project on Predatory Student Lending, which advocates for defrauded borrowers, published updated information on the steps borrowers need to take to apply for the relief
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Student loan borrowers in the dark about little-known program that cancels ALL debt | Daily Mail
PPSL published Navient's application form and an instruction guide for borrowers with private loans seeking debt forgiveness based on the grounds that their school lied to them.
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Navient Student Loan Forgiveness: What Borrowers Need to Know | NerdWallet
According to PPSL, Navient has recently begun sending out a “school misconduct discharge” application to a select group of borrowers who were defrauded by their colleges.
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Private Student Loan Forgiveness Application Is Now Available, But Few May Be Aware | Forbes
A major national private student loan lender has quietly released a new application that provides a limited, but very real, pathway to potential relief.
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There’s a Program to Cancel Private Student Debt. Most Don’t Know About It. | New York Times
“A nonprofit group is publicizing the relief program that Navient, a large lender, created for students who attended for-profit schools that misled them.”
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Navient distanced itself from a controversial student-loan portfolio. Meanwhile, borrowers can’t escape. | MarketWatch
The company is transferring servicing of a batch of private loans to MOHELA, which has been dogged by complaints in recent months.
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Settlement will wipe $6B in student loan debt — but not for these borrowers | Washington Post
“These private loan borrowers are coming out of the exact same circumstances and the exact same context,” said Eileen Connor, director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, which represented the former students who started getting relief last month. “They have similar rights to cancellation. There’s no rationale to explain why one loan would be enforceable and another is not.”