Date Received: 2017-10-13
Issue: Struggling to repay your loan
Subissue: Problem lowering your monthly payments
Consumer Complaint: Through nelnet, I tried to lower my monthly payments significantly due to my income. Orginally, my loan payment was almost {$800.00}. I also have private loans where my loan payment is {$900.00} a month and I could not pay either. I asked them to put me through a process to see if I can lower my monthly payments. I was put on foreberance for a month while they looked it over. I told them I needed more time than a month they said that 's all they could do. I also asked them if they could give me a general idea of what my new loan payment would be and they said {$150.00} due to my income. It took them over a month to process all my information. In the end they made my new payment {$300.00}. Something I still can not pay every month. I 'm now 60 days late. I either catch up on navinet or not pay my private loans. I constantly have to choose between XXXX or the other. I 'm so in debt I ca n't even live my life. I work XXXX jobs now and I 'm not able to get by. I tried to reach out to nelnet to see if they can help me out and they said there is not much they could do. I need help.
Company Response:
State: TX
Zip: 78613
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-10-13
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-10-12
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Don't agree with the fees charged
Consumer Complaint: I monitor my credit. In XX/XX/XXXX, I received an alert that I missed a student loan payment. Upon review, the missed payment was for a FFEL consolidated student loan with an 8 % interest rate that originated with XXXX XXXX and was discharged under the Total and Permanent XXXX Discharge Program as of XX/XX/XXXX. I contacted XXXX XXXX, nka XXXX and received a letter dated XX/XX/XXXX verifying the loan was discharged on XX/XX/XXXX. The P & I owed was {$15000.00} and now, it is {$17000.00}. I have contacted Nelnet, with no luck, they forced me to agree to a forbearance for a debt I do n't own or they would continue to report to the credit agencies. The repayment date is this month, on XX/XX/XXXX, I received a letter that they tacked on over {$1800.00} in interest for the three months of forbearance, and they threatened to garnish my wages if I do n't pay them. I sent them a copy of the discharge letter and they wo n't accept it. I asked for a copy of my loan documents and have not received same. They also attempted to force me to send them a letter stating that I am not currently working and did not work the prior year, which I refused to do because I have worked. I received no notice of an alleged late payment, no phone calls, no emails. I have not received any contact from them since I sent my application for a XXXX discharge to them in the fall of XX/XX/XXXX. The only notice or contact I received from XXXX XXXX or Nelnet stating there was an issue with a discharge or money was owned is from the notice I received from the credit monitoring. Also, I had not moved since I submitted my application and XXXX, one of the supervisors at Nelnet stated they sent all notices to an address in XXXX Illinois. I have not lived in Illinois for 7 years and told her that was not the address on my application for XXXX discharge! Additionally, because I did n't receive any notices or communication before they reported me to the credit agencies, they agreed to removed the two instances they reported nonpayment on XX/XX/XXXX and XX/XX/XXXX to the credit agencies, yet they have not done so and my credit score significantly dropped. My credit score dropped again when they added the {$1800.00} in interest to my loan amount in XX/XX/XXXX. I contacted the Ombudsman department on XX/XX/XXXX and got no where with them, all they did was quote from a script about XXXX discharges. Lastly, the amount they claimed is owed and the information on the US Department of Education does not reflect any payments made over the life of the loan.
Company Response:
State: TX
Zip: 76087
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-10-13
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-10-10
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Subissue: Old information reappears or never goes away
Consumer Complaint: The company by the name of DEPT OF EDUCATION/NELNET is reporting on my credit report. These loans where sold to a company by the name of XXXX. NELNET is also reporting late fees on my report which has been consolidated. All of the NELNET accounts have been on my report before XXXX and open since XXXX there XXXX accounts they are reporting to my credit.
Company Response:
State: TX
Zip: 76133
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-10-11
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-10-10
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Received bad information about your loan
Consumer Complaint: I have been trying since XXXX/XXXX/XXXX since I talked with XXXX at XXXX pm to get Nelnet to make my loan one payment that will cover my interest and pay off my principle as well. I paid over the amount that was due and it did not even touch my principle instead what Nelnet did was " move '' my loan out according to them. Instead of paying once a month I ended up paying three times that month {$130.00} on XXXX/XXXX/XXXX and twice on XXXX/XXXX/XXXX {$200.00} and {$400.00}. I contacted Nelnet once again the following day with XXXX and was supposed to setup a payment once a month of {$610.00}. Supposedly Nelnet fixed the problem and pushed my loans into one payment. My payments were never set to the {$610.00} and finally in XXXX I contacted them again to fix this problem. On XXXX/XXXX/XXXX I contacted Nelnet yet again and spoke with XXXX about the issue of my loan not being the {$610.00} that its supposed to be as well as why I paid over on my loan group f and it never went down. I paid the {$480.00} they show online due at that date and it was posted on my account on XXXX/XXXX/XXXX. Once again today XXXX/XXXX/XXXX I received an email stating that I now owe {$510.00} and its past due somehow. Once again being charged 2 time in a month and not even for the correct amount. Nelnet does not show how much you have to pay in order to pay down on the interest they show an amount due but it does n't cover interest. They also have n't put any of my money that I pay over to principle. They say I have to check a box that is never there that says I do n't want to " push '' my loan out according to them. I have paid off many loans and continue to pay and have never had any issues like I have had with Nelnet. They make it a nightmare to pay off your debt and continue to either over charge me or lower my payments so that interest accrues on my loan. No matter how I pay my loan my principle is not going down. This company does everything they can to keep charging you more and make it as confusing as possible to pay it down. Every other loan I have ever had in my life allows you to pay principle down after you pay your payment but Nelnet continues to " push '' my loans out and is doing everything they can to make sure that I do n't pay my principle.
Company Response:
State: FL
Zip: 34638
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-10-10
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-10-10
Issue: Struggling to repay your loan
Subissue: Can't get other flexible options for repaying your loan
Consumer Complaint: Took an unauthorized amount of money after a repayment schedule had expired.
Company Response:
State: MA
Zip: 014XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-10-10
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-10-09
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Trouble with how payments are being handled
Consumer Complaint: Please reopen my complaint XXXX as the XXXX 's response to that complaint in unsatisfactory. It is impossible for my monthly payment amount to increase when the principle is declining, the interest rate is fixed and there were no missed payments. I am certain that XXXX lacks the controls to apply my payments incorrectly.
Company Response:
State: OH
Zip: 43221
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-10-09
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-10-09
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Subissue: Account status incorrect
Consumer Complaint: Within the years of XX/XX/XXXX and XX/XX/XXXX, I submitted a request to be placed in forbearance and or deferment because of my XXXX STUDENT STATUS. The request was received and therefore approved because of the acceptable documentation.
Company Response:
State: NJ
Zip: XXXXX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-10-09
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-10-09
Issue: Struggling to repay your loan
Subissue: Problem lowering your monthly payments
Consumer Complaint: Forebearance/Cancellation of Debt
Company Response:
State: VA
Zip: 231XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-10-09
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-10-09
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Problem with customer service
Consumer Complaint: I am visually impaired student and their information to have my loans to be discharged I must be in a XXXX and or about to XXXX from my XXXX. That is what the customer service representative told me. I was so frustrated I hung up on them. My loan servicer is Nelnet. I have been calling them for the past month and they are not helping me. I can work but I am having trouble finding a job. Right now I am in school trying to figure out how to get the loan paid off before my parents find out. When I talked to the people who deal with the discharge they told me to go to the doctor and have them fill out a section about my XXXX and they thought that my XXXX just happened and it did not happen right away it happened since I was born.
Company Response:
State: IN
Zip: 46530
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-10-09
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-10-09
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Received bad information about your loan
Consumer Complaint: Nelnet has been reporting negatively on my credit report to XXXX, XXXX, and XXXX. I have gotten my lawyers involved in the matter after I was told by nelnet that I needed a subpoena to get them to resolve the required documents but was advised by the attorneys this is not true. They have failed and refused to show documentation for me being late and i request the inaccurate negative late payments be deleted off my report backed by FCRA law.
Company Response:
State: NC
Zip: 27403
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-10-09
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A