NELNET, INC.


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"Products" offered by NELNET, INC. with at least one, but usually more complaints:

Checking or savings account - Checking account
Consumer Loan - Installment loan
Credit card - General-purpose credit card or charge card
Credit card or prepaid card - General-purpose credit card or charge card
Credit reporting -
Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports - Credit reporting
Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports - Other personal consumer report
Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports - Credit repair services
Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports - Credit reporting
Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports - Other personal consumer report
Debt collection - Credit card debt
Debt collection - Federal student loan
Debt collection - Federal student loan debt
Debt collection - I do not know
Debt collection - Medical debt
Debt collection - Non-federal student loan
Debt collection - Other (i.e. phone, health club, etc.)
Debt collection - Other debt
Debt collection - Payday loan debt
Debt collection - Private student loan debt
Debt or credit management - Debt settlement
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Debt settlement
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Domestic (US) money transfer
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Mobile or digital wallet
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Refund anticipation check
Money transfer, virtual currency, or money service - Virtual currency
Mortgage - Conventional home mortgage
Mortgage - Home equity loan or line of credit (HELOC)
Mortgage - Other mortgage
Other financial service - Debt settlement
Payday loan, title loan, or personal loan - Installment loan
Payday loan, title loan, or personal loan - Payday loan
Payday loan, title loan, or personal loan - Personal line of credit
Payday loan, title loan, personal loan, or advance loan - Installment loan
Payday loan, title loan, personal loan, or advance loan - Personal line of credit
Student loan - Federal student loan servicing
Student loan - Non-federal student loan
Student loan - Private student loan
Vehicle loan or lease - Loan

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Complaint ID: 6469570

Date Received: 2023-01-22

Issue: Struggling to repay your loan

Subissue: Can't get other flexible options for repaying your loan

Consumer Complaint: Consistently tried to get a Income Redriven payment plan. But was not allowed to.

Company Response:

State: WI

Zip: 53222

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2023-01-22

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 6463939

Date Received: 2023-01-20

Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer

Subissue: Problem with customer service

Consumer Complaint: On XX/XX/XXXX I uploaded a completed XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Netnet XXXX XXXX. I received a notification that Nelnet had received the loan forgiveness application and would take XXXX days to complete the request. I received a letter from Nelnet dated XX/XX/XXXX that my loan forgiveness application was materially complete had been forwarded to the Department of Education for their review. In the beginning of XX/XX/XXXX I received a second letter from Nelnet dated XXXX XXXX stating I needed to resubmit my application. To recap I submitted XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXX/XX/XXXX and received XXXX different replies from Nelnet to this XXXX submission. The first reply found no problems with my application submission and forwarded my application to the Department of Education while the second reply stated my application needed to be resubmitted and my application is on hold at Nelnet.

Company Response:

State: MA

Zip: 015XX

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2023-01-20

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 6463680

Date Received: 2023-01-20

Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer

Subissue: Trouble with how payments are being handled

Consumer Complaint: I made a payment to Nelnet, my student loan servicer, on XX/XX/XXXX in the amount of {$9400.00}. I attempted to initiate a refund for this amount in XXXX of XXXX and have still not received it as of today, XX/XX/XXXX. I have called multiple times requesting updates or attempting to restart the process only to be told 'the process is still taking place ' with no other detail. The current timeline of 3+months well exceeds the 4-6 weeks I was originally quoted and at this point the actions of the student loan servicer appear to be fraudulent.

Company Response:

State: TX

Zip: 75070

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2023-01-20

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 6463561

Date Received: 2023-01-20

Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer

Subissue: Problem with customer service

Consumer Complaint: Nelnet has improperly calculated my 5 years of continuous teaching multiple times as part of my XXXX Loan Forgiveness Application. I am using the XXXX Loan Forgiveness Application downloaded from the Studentaid.gov Web site as the authoritative document for instructions and definitions in filling out the XXXX Loan Forgiveness ( XXXX ) application. This downloaded application has an expiration date of XX/XX/XXXX. The instructions on page 3 of the XXXX application in Section 7 state : If you need to list multiple XXXX or need more than one XXXX XXXX certification, the information required in Section 5 may be provided on a separate piece of paper and submitted with your completed form. Attached are the second page of my submitted application and an additional sheet which contains a completed XXXX XXXX XXXX Section only. To be clear my submission has always been three pages. Page 1 and page 2 are sections 1 thru section 5 of the XXXX application. Page 3 was a copy of page 2 with only section 5 completed. On page 4 of the XXXX application in Section 8 defines : An academic year is : Two complete and consecutive half years at different schools or for different XXXX service agencies. The dates in the attached certifications are shown as follows : XXXX XXXX XXXX XX/XX/XXXX thru XX/XX/XXXX, and the XXXX XXXX XXXX XX/XX/XXXX thru XX/XX/XXXX. I am claiming the following continuous years of service : XX/XX/XXXX XX/XX/XXXX ( XXXX year of XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX ), XX/XX/XXXX XX/XX/XXXX ( XXXX year of XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX ), and XX/XX/XXXX XX/XX/XXXX ( 4 years of XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX ). This service meets the requirements of 5 years of continuous service.

Company Response:

State: MA

Zip: 015XX

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2023-01-20

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 6461449

Date Received: 2023-01-20

Issue: Improper use of your report

Subissue: Report provided to employer without your written authorization

Consumer Complaint: In accordance with the Fair Credit Reporting act. The List of accounts below has violated my federally protected consumer rights to privacy and confidentiality under 15 USC 1681. Account name : XXXX Account number : XXXX Account name : XXXX XXXX XXXX Account number : XXXX Account name XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Account number : XXXX Account name : XXXX XXXX XXXX Account number : XXXX Account name : XXXX XXXX XXXX Account number : XXXX Account name : XXXX XXXX XXXX Account number : XXXX has violated my rights. 15 U.S.C 1681 section 602 A. States I have the right to privacy. 15 U.S.C 1681 Section 604 A Section 2 : It also states a consumer reporting agency can not furnish a account without my written instructions 15 U.S.C 1681c. ( a ) ( 5 ) Section States : no consumer reporting agency may make any consumer report containing any of the following items of information Any other adverse item of information, other than records of convictions of crimes which antedates the report by more than seven years. 15 U.S.C. 1681s-2 ( A ) ( 1 ) A person shall not furnish any information relating to a consumer to any consumer reporting agency if the person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the information is inaccurate.

Company Response:

State: MI

Zip: 480XX

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2023-02-09

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 6457068

Date Received: 2023-01-20

Issue: Incorrect information on your report

Subissue: Account information incorrect

Consumer Complaint: They are reporting false information. It says I was late 90 days but on the report it says I was on time In XXXX and in XXXX but I was late in XXXX and in XXXX

Company Response:

State: GA

Zip: 30263

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2023-01-20

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 6450513

Date Received: 2023-01-19

Issue: Improper use of your report

Subissue: Reporting company used your report improperly

Consumer Complaint: This has violated my rights. 15 U.S.C 1681 section 602 A. States I have the right to privacy. 15 U.SC 1681 Section 604 A Section 2 : It also states a consumer reporting agency can not furnish an account without my written instructions.

Company Response:

State: FL

Zip: 322XX

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2023-01-19

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 6450485

Date Received: 2023-01-18

Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer

Subissue: Trouble with how payments are being handled

Consumer Complaint: I am a co-signer of a private student loan with XXXX XXXX who uses FirstMark as their servicing company. My son makes the regular monthly payments while my husband and I make additional payments on his student loans. On XX/XX/XXXX, we made an additional online payment of {$1800.00} and specified that it be applied to only 1 of the 5 notes that my son has. This amount was an exact payoff amount for this specific loan. I even had a FirstMark loan officer on the phone with my husband and me to verify that it was paid in full. The loan advisor said that he could see in my account that the loan was paid off. On Friday, XX/XX/XXXX, we were shocked to see from my online account that this loan was not paid off in full but rather our {$1800.00} was divided into 5 payments of {$360.00} and applied to all 5 loans. WHO CHANGED MY ONLINE PAYMENT? We have heard that it is against the law to go into someone's account and change their payments. This is not the first time FirstMark has ignored our special instructions and paid loans not intended to be paid. In fact, this problem has been going on since XX/XX/XXXX and continues today. We have spent numerous hours on the phone correcting mishandling of our additional student loan payments. Corrections have been made month after month but we do not know how much money was lost by their mistakes. Remember, these loans accrue interest daily. My husband and I feel that they are intentionally preventing us from early payoffs of targeted loans. We are frustrated but will not be deterred from meeting our goal of paying off our son 's student loans early.

Company Response:

State: PA

Zip: 19454

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2023-01-18

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: No

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 6450426

Date Received: 2023-01-18

Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer

Subissue: Received bad information about your loan

Consumer Complaint: I constantly check my credit report and noticed that there are false and misleading information on this account that didn't meet credit reporting standards of being 100 % correct. Requested proof of this account and company hasnt't met the demands of what was requested. This has damaged me and held me back for some time. Im demanding Cfpb to enforce correction of these items an updating to paid in full.

Company Response:

State: PA

Zip: 19122

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2023-01-18

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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Complaint ID: 6448489

Date Received: 2023-01-17

Issue: Struggling to repay your loan

Subissue: Can't get other flexible options for repaying your loan

Consumer Complaint: I went to XXXX XXXX and XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX and they promise job placement and I never got or job

Company Response:

State: GA

Zip: 308XX

Submitted Via: Web

Date Sent: 2023-01-17

Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A


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