Date Received: 2022-10-05
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Need information about your loan balance or loan terms
Consumer Complaint: Been XXXX since 2012 and having issues obtaining information to separate out loans. Unable to obtain a Master Promissory Note through loan servicer. I contacted loan servicer Nelnet for this information and they could not provide. Nelnet suggested i contact studentaid.gov but unable to provide as well since over 10 years
Company Response:
State: TX
Zip: 781XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2022-10-05
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2022-10-05
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Problem with customer service
Consumer Complaint: I have a federal student loan that is eligible for the student loan cancellation. I am eligible for {$20000.00} in forgiveness. I made a total of a little over {$8600.00} in payments during the payment pause for Co-vid to take advantage of no interest to try and pay down my loan. I called Nelnet on XX/XX/2022 to request a refund for the payments I made during the payment pause from XXXX XXXX on. They told me I would receive the refund in about 4-6 weeks and I would get an email with the status of my request in the following week. I never received that email. I hadn't heard anything at 5 weeks so I called them and they said it would be 6-8 weeks to get a refund. I am now at the 6 week mark and in order for me to get my refund at 8 weeks I would have to have my loan balance reinstated on the website by now which I have not. Also I see people that have called Nelnet after I did already getting their refunds while I still am waiting to get my balance reinstated. I am worried I will not receive my refund that I am entitled to in time for the debt cancellation. Then I will have to start repaying my loan in XXXX.
Company Response:
State: OH
Zip: 44406
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2022-10-05
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2022-10-04
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Problem with customer service
Consumer Complaint: I submitted a request to have funds returned to me in reference to the CARES act. I requested to have payments that i made during the pandemic to be refunded to me. I made the initial call on XXXXI 've been told this is in process and I would be kept in the loop on the status of this request. By this Thursday ( XX/XX/2022 ), it will have been 6 weeks with no status update ( via email or phone call from Nelnet ) in regards to this request. I've called multiple times and have been given different information from each agent I've spoken with ( it's in process or contact studentaid.gov ). With no movement so far, this is going beyond the window in which I was quoted ( 4 to 6 weeks ).
Company Response:
State: VA
Zip: XXXXX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2022-10-04
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2022-10-05
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Received bad information about your loan
Consumer Complaint: Since XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX I have made {$16000.00} worth of payments on my Department of Education held loans from my XXXX years at XXXX XXXX XXXX ( XXXX ) via my designated loan servicer, Nelnet. On XX/XX/XXXX I called Nelnet and requested refund of a {$7800.00} payments made made on XX/XX/XXXX, as provided for under the CARES Act. The Nelnet representative told me that my requested refund would be received within 4-6 weeks and that during that time frame my student loan balance would be updated. On XX/XX/XXXX, I called again, this time to request refunds of 3 payments of {$510.00} ( each ) made on XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX. Again, the Nelnet representative advised me that my requested refund would be received within 4-6 weeks and that during that time frame my student loan balance would be updated. They advised me to call back if refunds were not received within that timeframe. It has been 6 weeks from the first request and I have not received any refunds nor has my balance been updated to reflect any of the requested refund amounts. I called- as instructed previously by Nelnet- to check the status of my refunds and loan balance update, and was told that my refunds " were not even processing yet ''. When I asked for a date by which I *could* expect my refunds, the Nelnet representative stated they would take " two more months, but would be completed by some time in XXXX, by end of year ''. When pressed as to why the timeline of 4-6 weeks was given not once, but twice previously, and how the backlog could affects requests made in XXXX when there was no backlog at that time, the Nelnet representative stated the system is overloaded with requests and that processing time has increased. This is asinine for multiple reasons, but most significantly because this will prevent me from applying for {$10000.00} of loan cancellation to which I am entitled under the recently announced forgiveness plan before the end of the year when payments restart. Nelnet is effectively holding my money XXXX to force payment of some interest to them on my loans into XXXX, as if my loan balance is not updated until XXXX, then it would be XXXX before I could expect cancellation, given the reported timeline from application to cancellation is ( at least ) 6 weeks. This will effectively force me to pay interest on loans I've already paid off, which should have been refunded, and which should be forgiven before end of year. All payments on my student loans to Nelnet have been made electronically from a major bank and can easily be reversed electronically- this takes only 3 to 5 business days for almost all financial institutions. Additionally, a timeline of 3-4 months was not the agreed upon terms of the refund and I was not advised that the refund could take until the end of the year during either call in XXXX.
Company Response:
State: OH
Zip: 43204
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2022-10-05
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2022-10-04
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Need information about your loan balance or loan terms
Consumer Complaint: Two or three weeks ago I reached out to my student loan provider to get my Master Promissory Note ( MPN ). I asked for this because I belong to a small group of FFEL loan holders who, for years, have been unable to separate loans from spouses/ex-spouses, consolidate their student loans into direct loans and apply for the Public Student Loan Forgiveness ( PSLF ). However, the good news is that Congress recently passed legislation XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX ) that will enable me to separate my loan from my ex-husband 's loan amount and finally consolidate my student loan into a direct loan to apply for PSLF. First, however, I need my MPN to determine which portion is mine. I hope that you can help me obtain my MPN from my student loan company.
Company Response:
State: MD
Zip: 21045
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2022-10-04
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2022-10-04
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Trouble with how payments are being handled
Consumer Complaint: I have a loan through Nelnet that has not qualified for any of the covid programs. On XX/XX/XXXX, I received a phone call from Nelnet explaining that the company they purchased my student loan from ( years ago ) had miscalculated my monthly payments. My loans are due in 6 months and they are now dividing my remaining payments up for the remaining amount, which ballooned my payments from {$110.00} to {$1100.00}. My only options are refinance or pay it off. I was told I could also call for forbearance with no issue other than an annual phone call required. I called Nelnet back on XX/XX/XXXX after digesting this information, and asked them to send this all to me in a letter. I was informed that the previous caller was wrong and this agent would submit a form and I would continue with the lower payments, and letters with this information would be sent. I never received a letter. I checked my Nelnet account on XX/XX/XXXX, and was shocked to see that they had increased my auto pay amounts without my permission, to {$1100.00}. I called again, and this agent told me I do not qualify for forbearance, and my only options were to pay or refinance. She had no information on refinancing available and sent me to a government website. She said she would request a letter be sent to me by email, and it would arrive by XX/XX/XXXX. I called again on XX/XX/XXXX as I did not receive anything by email or mail. This agent informed me that a letter was sent on XX/XX/XXXX but takes time for processing and it " should '' arrive by XX/XX/XXXX. She said I don't need to make the large payments on XX/XX/XXXX when it's due, and it would probably be fine since I haven't received anything in writing and they shouldn't report to the credit bureaus. My first auto-pay that Nelnet increased XXXX my approval was taken from my checking account on XX/XX/XXXX. I received the emailed letter I had requested on XX/XX/XXXX. This letter took no responsibility for their part in my payments increasing XXXX. I have not yet received the postal mailed letter promised by XX/XX/XXXX. I am extremely fortunate that this is not going to cost me my house, food, credit, or absolute necessities. It just feels so wrong that a mistake by a huge student loan corporation can lead to such repercussions for me but not them. I have always paid on time at the amount that Nelnet calculated as due, yet I'm stuck with dealing with their mistake. I am concerned that I am not the only one this is happening to, and know others would be in a much worse situation with this kind of demand for payments.
Company Response:
State: MN
Zip: 55016
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2022-10-04
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2022-10-04
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Trouble with how payments are being handled
Consumer Complaint: The federal government recently announced a student loan relief plan with a term that stated any payment made during the pandemic could be refunded, My servicer ( Great Lakes ) rejected a refund request for loan payments made during the pandemic pause. They cited a 3rd party consolidation as the reason for the rejection. I am a Pell Grant recipient and the department 's recent guidance on refunds does not state a specific payment party as a requirement for refund eligibility nor does it exempt payments due to a refinance. According to XXXX " Refund requests can only be made by you and refunded to you, even if someone else made a payment on your loan. '' Part of my payments during the pandemic were made by a 3rd party refinance not a consolidation. According to the policy stated, I should be granted a refund.
Company Response:
State: NJ
Zip: 08859
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2022-10-04
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2022-10-04
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Trouble with how payments are being handled
Consumer Complaint: I spoke with Nelnet about requesting a refund. I have not received any information from them in 5 weeks regarding what the status is or when I should be getting a refund for payments I made that I requested to be refunded.
Company Response:
State: NJ
Zip: 074XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2022-10-04
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2022-10-04
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Trouble with how payments are being handled
Consumer Complaint: I called Nelnet on XX/XX/XXXX to request a refund for some payments I made during the pandemic pause. I asked for a refund of payments made on XX/XX/XXXX through XX/XX/XXXX ( totaling {$4900.00} ). I was told that the refund would be processed in 4-6 weeks and that I could call back for for information once the refund process was initiated. As of XX/XX/XXXX it has been six weeks and I have not been able to get an update. Every time I call Nelnet customer service, they tell me that the refund is still in process and they can't give me any other information.
Company Response:
State: LA
Zip: 70806
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2022-10-04
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2022-10-04
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Need information about your loan balance or loan terms
Consumer Complaint: I requested a refund on XX/XX/XXXX under the CARES act and was quoted 4-6 weeks for the refund to be sent back to me. I called last week ( XX/XX/XXXX ) and was given zero extra info besides that there was a remark about the refund being filed. I have also sent an email requesting info and have gotten nothing. In two days will mark 6 weeks without any updates or movement. I was told to receive an email with an update when my refund was accepted but haven't even gotten that.
Company Response:
State: MD
Zip: 21133
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2022-10-04
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A