I am constantly surprised by people who try to make money by scamming student loans. I mean, let’s look at this realistically - the government keeps a close eye on what is going on. And the loans are provided by banks who have legions of people looking for fraud.
Yet every year some new [...]
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Another case of student loan fraud
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
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HEA Re-authorization targets illegal downloading at colleges
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
The UCLA Daily Bruin has an article pointing out one of the more obscure items in the HEA re-authorization bill before the House of Representatives. It has wording in there to tackle the issue of illegal downloading on campuses.
You can read the whole article here, or read the excerpt below:
A change that will directly impact [...]
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Will colleges mitigate tuition increase to avoid being on a watch-list?
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
Inside Higher has an interesting article on one aspect of the HEA re-authorization bill currently before the House of Representatives. Read the excerpt below. I got a kick out of this one.
If the Higher Education Act bill that House Democrats introduced late last week did not persuade college leaders that the issue of [...]
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Scholarships are out there
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
People keep telling me scholarships aren’t worth the effort, and that astounds me.
We’re talking about FREE MONEY!!! You don’t pay it back like loans - why can’t I get this across to people?
So just to prove that there are scholarships out there for everyone, here’s a few more random ones I came across just by [...]
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Lawmakers introduce Higher Education Act reauthorization bill
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
According to NCHelp.org, House Education and Labor Chairman George Miller (D-CA) and Representative Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX) introduced H.R. 4137 which is a five-year reauthorization bill for the Higher Education Act (HEA). The bill contains many provisions, including:
Expand college access for low-income and minority students by increasing the maximum Pell Grant award to $9,000, [...]
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Student Loan issues occur the world over
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
I found an article in the Canadian Press that made my eyes roll. The US is not the only country to be slightly idiotic at times!
The article points out that the company recently assigned a 5-year contract in Canada to ” take over ‘end-to-end servicing’ of debt” in the student loan program has a history [...]
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Student loan “crackdown bill” introduced in House of Representatives
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
According to Reuters, a bill was put before teh House on 11/9/2007 seeking to combat some of the excesses of the student loan industry. Here’s an excerpt from a Reuters article about it:
A bill aimed at cleaning up misconduct in the U.S. student loan industry and encouraging colleges to restrain tuition inflation was introduced in [...]
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