Sallie Mae In School Deferment?

Q: I am in my 3rd term of law school and each term I get harassed. Sallie mae offers an in-school deferment but there is a catch. 1st semester I was told in order to process it, they need proof Im in school. The only proof they will accept is a fax letter

A: I find it hard to believe that your law school does not issue enrollment letters. You need to verify your statement. You can fax the letter to Sallie Mae yourself - get the name of the guy who calls and send the fax to his direct attention.

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Few options available to help pay off private student loans

Jessica Fernandez won't be one of them.

Fernandez, 29, of Bridgewater, N.J., was laid off from her full-time job two years ago. She only recently found a job with a temp agency that pays less than half what she had been earning. She and her 8-year-old daughter had to move in with her parents because she could no longer pay the bills, which include student loan payments of more than $1,000 a month.

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That would appear to make Fernandez a prime candidate for the president's loan relief program. However, more than $35,000 of her student loans are private. Those loans, which aren't issued or guaranteed by the federal government, have few of the protections provided for borrowers with federal student loans.

The sluggish economy has made the differences between federal and private loans even more pronounced.

College Credit Crisis

With the passing of the 2010 Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act (also known as  the Credit CARD Act) new laws are now in place designed to protect consumers from common tricks and schemes credit card companies employ to pile on debt to unsuspecting consumers.

Not the least of those consumers are college students, who typically show a disregard for the seriousness surrounding credit card debt, and the effect said debt can have on their credit.

In fact, a recent Sallie Mae study showed that debt among college students is averaged at just over $3,000 dollars, with a whopping 82 percent of college students revolving debt each month.

Professor Theodore A. Clark, whose area of expertise is in market research and consumer behavior, warns against the dangers of abusing a credit card, and the lasting effect that it can have on one’s credit.

“If you have access to a credit card and use that credit card ineffectively or incorrectly, it can cause a mountain of debt that will stick with you for years after you’ve left college,” said Clark. “Students need to understand whether it may be employment, getting a home or going to school, it’s your everything. It’s the one thing, I think, that will follow you your whole life.”

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