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Student Loan Debt Collections Come Up Short

The U.S. Department of Education is reporting that its current student loan debt collection contract produced more revenue in the first 15 months of operation than the previous debt collection contract did for the same period of time, but debt

5 Tips When Filling out Instant Approval Credit Card Applications

You get bombarded with them on a daily basis. They come in your mail by the dozens per month. When you go shopping at your favorite department store, they offer you one so you can 10 percent off your purchase.

Federal Student Loan Refinancing

Federal Student Loan Consolidation is a financing facility that allows a borrower to merge his several federal student loans into a single new loan, and thereby bring them under one repayment plan. Federal student loans are generally issued or guaranteed

Rising Default Rates on Student Loans Stir Concerns

New data from the U.S. Department of Education show that 2008 was a bad year to graduate from college in terms of student loan defaults. According to the Education Department, 7 percent of the class of 2008 has defaulted on