Parent Plus loan borrowers and grad loan borrowers have received the short stick for all the recent announcements post the Supreme Court decision on student loan forgiveness. The new bankruptcy rule will allow debtors to create a Chapter 13 Plan to easily provide IDR credit: Changes: We have revised §685.209(k)(4)(iv)(K)…
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Post Bankruptcy — Don’t Just Pay – Often a Collections Law Violation!
We received this inquiry today from a fellow bankruptcy attorney: I have a client who had a Chapter 13, which due to it being a 100% plan, ended off paying off the Proof of Claim Amount at 100% in the bankruptcy. Years later, (Insert Private Student Loan Company Here) is…
U.S. Supreme Court Knocks Down the 10k – 20k Forgiveness
We’ve just learned that the U.S. Supreme court denied the 10k-20k forgiveness of federal student debt that was pending. We were expecting that. Unfortunately, most of our clients owe so much more anyway, and the other programs out there are doing so much more to get rid of this debt.…
Confused over whether there is still Income Monitoring of Total and Permanent Disability Applications to Discharge Federal Student Loan Debt?
We’ve seen some confusion out there about whether those with disability discharges for federal student loans are required to provide income information going forward. This is because the new rule hasn’t yet gone into effect. But it will before the repayment pause ends so no worries. https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/education-department-releases-final-regulations-expand-and-improve-targeted-debt-relief-programs The rule eliminates…
Do you have a Joint Spousal Consolidation Loan?
I just became aware of a new procedure to provide “an intent to separate a joint consolidation loan” when a client received this: As you are already aware, you and XX have a FFEL Joint Consolidation Loan. ED has indicated that FFEL Joint Consolidation Loan borrowers who take the necessary…
Our new Student Loan Sidebar is up Now!
We write a column – that has become 1-2 pages due to all the stuff going on — called the Student Loan Sidebar in our local Cramdown publication to all bankruptcy practitioners including debtor attorneys, the creditors’ bar and our judiciary. Because not everyone has access to this publication, we…
Would you Pay $2,500 to Finally Get Rid of your Federal Student Loans in Bankruptcy?
“It is now time”, states Judge Klein who is charting a path for discharging student loans without being reversed. For years, bankruptcy judges were wary of ruling in favor of debtors who asked for a discharge of federal student loan debt. In part, because those Judges knew their rulings would…
Wanting to Know More About Discharging Federal Student Loan Debt in a Bankruptcy?
By now everyone (our attorney friends) has probably watched a CLE on the new DOJ Guidance to discharge federal student loans, but do you really understand how to do the process? We are on a panel set up by the Bransons in Orlando doing an all-day workshop via Zoom on…
Educational Benefit Isn’t What it may Appear at First Blush
One of the early and frequent arguments made by opposing counsel in our private student loan discharge adversaries in bankruptcy is that the student loans were made for an educational benefit and thus are excluded from discharge. Specifically, Section 523(a)(A)(ii) exempts from discharge “an obligation to repay funds received as…
You Should Still Consider Consolidating Older FFEL loans Before May 11 When the Emergency Ends
Some of you may have heard that the May 1 deadline to consolidate older FFEL federal student loans to the newer Direct student loans for the one time account adjustment has just been extended until the end of the year. While that initially seems like great news, why is it…