To President Trump and Congress: Return Standard Consumer Protections to ALL STUDENT LOANS!
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Jan 7th, 2017Someone from Capitol Heights, MD writes:
We deserve basic consumer protections on Student Loans and the return of Standard Bankruptcy Protections. -
Jan 7th, 2017Sue G. from Palatine, IL writes:
Subsidized housing, where so many single mothers who try to go to college to better themselves, EVICTS tenants who are defaulted. Not bad enough to be single mother, defaulted due to many uncontrollable reasons, and homeless w children and nowhere to go. This is sick.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 7th, 2017Jenifer M. from Greenfield, IN signed.
Jan 6th, 2017Robert O. from Tacoma, WA writes:
please stop drilling my blood to feed your brood.please.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 6th, 2017Someone from Mount Vernon, OH signed.
Jan 6th, 2017Amy L. from Charleston, SC signed.
Jan 5th, 2017Bill H. from Grundy, VA writes:
Student loan debt is at 1.3 trillion dollars and the snowball is coming down the mountain. My loans have hindered me from buying a home, cars, and other consumer goods that have been the bedrock for the middle class families and served as principal drivers in taxes. If the federal government wants to ignite the economy, then lowering interest rates or increasing tax deductions on student loans would be a great start.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 5th, 2017Jill B. from San Diego, CA writes:
Student loan debt holders need consumer protections to protect them from RIP OFFS. Also, the government needs to quit lying about the value of a higher education. Employers hire based on nepotism, elitism, sexism, and butt-kissing. The perpetrators of fraud need to be DISGORGED OF THEIR PROFITS. vegantownusa.wordpress.comREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 5th, 2017Laine L. from Tulsa, OK writes:
As a nation, we are turning our backs on the principle of our Founding Fathers, that people have a right to a fresh start. We need to reevaluate our priorities.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 5th, 2017Keith D. from Riverside, CA writes:
Tried to get a second mortgage on my very small house to pay my student loans. I could not qualify because of the Texas S&L crisis, in which my government bailed out to tune of billions of dollars, with the perpetrators walking away with millions in their pockets. Got in a bad financial deal with my mother in law and wound up homeless for six months, Can't even pay the interest. Let's not forget the child support I incurred falsely. Took years to get my money back. Consumer protection is need to make America Great Again.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 5th, 2017Keith D. from Riverside, CA writes:
Tried to get a second mortgage on my very small house to pay my student loans. I could not qualify because of the Texas S&L crisis, in which my government bailed out to tune of billions of dollars, with the perpetrators walking away with millions in their pockets. Got in a bad financial deal with my mother in law and wound up homeless for six months, Can't even pay the interest. Let's not forget the child support I incurred falsely. Took years to get my money back. Consumer protection is need to make America Great Again.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 5th, 2017Keith D. from Riverside, CA writes:
Tried to get a second mortgage on my very small house to pay my student loans. I could not qualify because of the Texas S&L crisis, in which my government bailed out to tune of billions of dollars, with the perpetrators walking away with millions in their pockets. Got in a bad financial deal with my mother in law and wound up homeless for six months, Can't even pay the interest. Let's not forget the child support I incurred falsely. Took years to get my money back. Consumer protection is need to make America Great Again.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 4th, 2017Jose B. from Irving, TX writes:
WE DESRVE CONSUMER PROTECTION. WE HAVE OUR RIGHTS!! Stop the corruption in the student loan program. Enough with the suicides, enough with people loosing their freedoms over never being able to pay rose vicious never ending interest.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 4th, 2017Dora S. from Aurora, CO signed.
Jan 4th, 2017Linda L. from Port St Lucie, FL signed.
Jan 4th, 2017Naida L. from Portland, OR signed.
Jan 4th, 2017meghan f. from Brookline, MA signed.
Jan 4th, 2017Ron H. from Columbus, OH signed.
Jan 3rd, 2017Mark V. from Milwaukee, WI signed.
Jan 3rd, 2017Anthony F. from Evanston, IL writes:
Bankruptcy equality now! If Trump can declare 4 times to discharge casino, I don't see why working class folks shut be shut out if this basic consumer protection. Especially when the Chapter 7 means test already screens for fraud and abuse in bankruptcy filings.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 3rd, 2017Toni K. from Chandler, AZ signed.
Jan 3rd, 2017Steve N. from Buffalo, NY signed.
Jan 3rd, 2017Robert C. from Syracuse, NY writes:
The existing system is a financial fiasco and IS certainly intolerable and indefensible and in a country that claims all are created equal under the law, it certainly appears to be unconstitutional as well. Repeal 11 USC 523(a)(8) and restore all borrower protections to students just the same as any other citizen. I suggest you consider a Troubled Education Relief and Reform Act ( TERRA ) modeled on TARP. Millions of Americans are suffering needlessly and through no fault of their own. ACT NOW !!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 3rd, 2017Someone from Fort Worth, TX writes:
TRUMP FILED 4 OR 5 TIMES.BUT STUDENTS IN TROUBLE CAN'T?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 3rd, 2017Someone from Skokie, IL writes:
Please help. 2 bankruptcies (with no lawyers wanting to even ATTEMPT a discharge of my PRIVATE STUDENT LOAN DEBT) since graduating college back in 2008. I honestly had no idea that the lender would absolutely NOT work with me on any type of income sensitive repayment plan when I signed on for these. The balance has ballooned to a figure that's just numbers printed on paper with no realistic way of ever being paid off at this point. Not a joke. They are FDIC insured/government backed, whereas I haven't seen anything higher than $16 per hr in my entire working life. Can't afford full payment? Oh well, they will see you in court for wage garnishment, possible bank freeze/random drainage, and SS garnishment when it comes time. I cannot live in dignity. I have almost given up on ever owning anything, having a family, and at times I just don't even want to live out another moment of my life because of this. The government doesn't funnel me BILLIONS and or TRILLIONS like the lender gets. In no way did they make it CLEAR to me that, no matter what, if I could not afford FULL payment, they will make sure that my life is basically destitution. Nor did they mention NO DISCHARGE WHATSOEVER NO MATTER WHAT (underemployed/unemployed due to no fault of my own). PLEASE PLEASE HELP! I don't know what else to do. I fear I may NEVER live anything CLOSE to a dignified life.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 3rd, 2017Christina F. from Grand Rapids, MI signed.
Jan 3rd, 2017Someone from Perkasie, PA signed.
Jan 3rd, 2017Elisabeth B. from Fort Sheridan, IL writes:
My spouse and I continue to suffer under this while entering our sixties.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 3rd, 2017Janice U. from Lakewood, NJ writes:
Defaulted college student loans are a trillion and a half per year PROFITABLE business for our government who bailed out the very banks that gave kickbacks to colleges and universities when they steered their students to these banks that were making obscene profits on these student loans. It is time to stop thinking we are all so stupid that promising free education in the future will remedy this unscrupulous, usurious governmental and banking rape of the future for these unfortunate students, who also can't find jobs in fields in which they were trained. Do you want fries with your greed?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 3rd, 2017Robin H. from Fort Collins, CO signed.
Jan 3rd, 2017Ryan S. from Rockford, IL signed.
Jan 3rd, 2017Theresa D. from Irving, TX writes:
Return all of our consumer rights, we pay off car loans and house loans and credit bank loans. This wrong in every time way. Garnishing social security Checks is wrong when people don't get enough to live on as it is. Same thing for paychecks that is needed to at rent and bills, we need help not punishment. Deferring a loan only adds fees making the original loan bigger, all wrong for people.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 2nd, 2017Katrina U. from Capitol Heights, MD writes:
Student Loans shouldn't be treated so differently from every other kind of consumer debt. Especially the private Student Loans that can carry interest rates as high as credit cards. The only way to get out of private student loans is death, and even after death the private student loan company can sue the deceased estate for the remaining balance.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 2nd, 2017Sara G. from Pittsburgh, PA signed.
Jan 2nd, 2017Mary S. from Kaiser, MO signed.
Jan 2nd, 2017Tom F. from San Antonio, TX signed.
Jan 2nd, 2017Someone from Newburgh, NY signed.
Jan 2nd, 2017Someone from Chicago, IL signed.
Jan 2nd, 2017Someone from Atlanta, GA writes:
I pay my student loan on time every month! My monthly payments are almost $1K. I pay it but its a struggle. I can't seem to find a bank that will let me refi my 8.25% interest to a lower rate! How is that fair?! I can refi a car loan but not my GSL? If President Elect Trump is everyone's president, then help those of us in the middle class help ourselves. Student loans should have the same rights to relief as every other type of loan.REPORT COMMENTS
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