Date Received: 2017-08-10
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Trouble with how payments are being handled
Consumer Complaint: Was told that interest accrues daily, and that 's why my additional money is not going to principal. I have been paying the amount required plus extra for several months. The breakdown of money application on the reverse side of each month 's statement does not show anything about additional money being applied to the then current principal.
Company Response:
State: AZ
Zip: XXXXX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-08-10
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-08-16
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Need information about your loan balance or loan terms
Consumer Complaint: I have called repeatedly to ask XXXX XXXX to send me my promissory note. I called XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX and XX/XX/XXXX. They have yet to send me the promissory note.
Company Response:
State: CA
Zip: 91355
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-08-18
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-08-20
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Trouble with how payments are being handled
Consumer Complaint: I am a borrower with subsidized and unsubsidized federal student loans. I use the platform Nelnet with the auto debit service they offer called XXXX. They make the auto debit service attractive by offering 0.25 % deduction interest if you sign up. Little do they tell you that they pay off the lower interest loans before the higher interest loans. So, in reality, it costs more for the borrower to use the auto debt service, and they put the interest of making money before their borrowers. This is very disappointing for a federal loan program. I would expect more from our government.
Company Response:
State: VT
Zip: 054XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-08-20
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-08-06
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Don't agree with the fees charged
Consumer Complaint: I have two Federal student loans currently being serviced by Nelnet with a combined balance of approximately {$120000.00}. The balance on these loans is higher than it should be for the reasons discussed below and I have so far been unable to resolve the issue with Nelnet directly. In 2014, I sent a recertification form to Nelnet by fax to renew my Income Based Repayment Plan ( IBR ), which is required to be renewed each year. A few weeks after sending it however, I received a monthly statement showing that my student loans had been switched to a Standard Repayment Plan instead. When I called Nelnet to ask why this had occurred I was told that they had not received the recertification paperwork and that I would need to resubmit it in order to get back on the original IBR plan. I did resubmit the paperwork and it was eventually approved. However, on XXXX XXXX, 2014, Nelnet incorrectly capitalized {$4500.00} of accrued interest as a penalty. This penalty should never have been levied since I fulfilled the requirement to send the recertification forms on time and I received a confirmation by fax that the documents had been successfully received. Nelnets employees either misplaced the forms or failed to record them properly in the companys computer system. Even so, Nelnet has yet to reverse the {$4500.00} interest capitalization. Even more egregious, the telephone assistant at Nelnet who discussed this issue with me at the time recommended that I apply for a Forbearance so that I would not have to make a monthly payment until my resubmitted IBR recertification had been approved. What she failed to explain to me is that by requesting a Forbearance, all of the remaining accrued interest on my outstanding student loans would be capitalized, resulting in the loan balance increasing by {$12000.00} and interest expense increasing by nearly {$900.00} per year. Had I been informed properly I could simply have made one monthly payment to avoid this additional {$12000.00} in capitalized interest. However, I was not given this information. Instead I was given the bad advice to proceed with a Forbearance even though this course of action was clearly not in my financial interest. The representative who instructed me to do this obviously did not understand the consequences of filing a Forbearance and should not have been placed in a position to advise borrowers. Over the life of the loan, this will cost me approximately{$17000.00} in additional interest and is the direct result of poor training given by Nelnet to their customer service employees. Nelnet has so far refused to take responsibility and reverse the capitalization.
Company Response:
State: WA
Zip: 98052
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-08-06
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-08-03
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Subissue: Account status incorrect
Consumer Complaint: NELNET has confirmed that they are reporting incorrectly on my student loans. They show delinquent in XXXX of 2013 when in fact the loans were deferred during that time. The credit bureaus fixed one of the accounts but continue to show the other one as delinquent. I finally thought this was resolved only to get my latest credit report with this loan still showing as delinquent. The credit bureaus need corrected information for BOTH loans on this account. The loan with original balance of {$10000.00} has been corrected. The loan on this same account with original balance of {$6000.00} is still showing as delinquent. Please remove this information as promised in your letter attached in this complaint.
Company Response:
State: OR
Zip: XXXXX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-08-03
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-08-01
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Received bad information about your loan
Consumer Complaint: This complaint is being made on XX/XX/XXXX. I have a graduated repayment plan with the US Department of Education. I have a statement date of XXXX XXXX, 2017. They advised that my monthly payment per my graduated plan is {$540.00}. I spoke with a representative at Nelnet and they told me about a new program called REPAYE that could make my student loan payments less. I asked how much the loan payment plan would be under REPAYE. The Nelnet representative told me that the payment would be less and that I could send in my taxes and then they would advise on the lower payment amount. I made my monthly payment in advance of XXXX XXXX, 2017 for the sum of {$540.00}. I got a letter in yesterdays mail advising that the payment amount would be significantly more. This was the first information I was ever advised on the amount I would pay under the REPAYE plan. I called Nelnet to say that I want to stay in my current plan. Nelnet said that I could not because they re-did the terms of the loan and would not let me in the graduated plan at {$540.00} per month. They said that I could only be in a graduated plan for {$550.00} per month. I was never advised that I would be taken out of the graduated plan. I was just told that they would be able to tell me the monthly payment amount under the other plan if I submitted an application. I did not say that I wanted to change into any new plan. I offered to pay any interest to prevent any capitalization so that I could keep the payments at the rate of {$540.00} per month. I was put into a plan at the {$550.00} per month. They refused to put me in at {$540.00} per month. I was improperly advised by technicians at Nelnet. They never told me that the loan terms would change or that there would be any capitalization. They never told me that my even filing an application that my amount would change at all from my plan of {$540.00} per month.
Company Response:
State: CA
Zip: 92107
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-08-01
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-08-01
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Trouble with how payments are being handled
Consumer Complaint: My income went down by $ XXXX in XX/XX/XXXX ( joint taxes filed with my wife ), and yet my student loan increased ( On Income Based Repayment, my loan payment increased from {$280.00} to {$530.00} - an increase of about 85 % more. They always ask for your Tax forms in XX/XX/XXXX ( instead of after XX/XX/XXXX, which would make more sense ), so since XX/XX/XXXX I have been calling them and trying to get them to explain this increase. The had me submit paycheck stubs, fill out paperwork 4 separate times ( one time an employee there filled out the paperwork " correctly '' and said all I had to do was sign it and mail it back in, but the next person said that paperwork was wrong ). I initially filed for the month deferment when I objected to the new payment amount, and they needed time to recalculate it. Now, after 5 months, no one is still explaining why my payment increased, but they say I am ineligible for another deferment because I already had one, so the choice is now pay the higher payment, or be penalized. The only nugget of information I got was that they calculate my Income Based Repayment based on the GROSS income ( so before taxes, social security, health insurance, etc. ). Every time I have called they state there is no supervisor that I can talk to. I 'm fed up with Nelnet.
Company Response:
State: MI
Zip: 48101
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-08-01
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-08-01
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Subissue: Trouble with how payments are being handled
Consumer Complaint: I made a large payment to pay down the principal of one of my student loans. Nelnet does not recalculate automatic loan payments and make it unnecessarily onerous in order for them to recalculate automatic loan payments. I 've contacted them twice with regards to me paying down the loan while the automatic payment amount has gone unchanged. This varies very differently from other student loan service providers I have used, specifically XXXX XXXX. In addition, Nelnet does not allow for me to change the automatic payment myself, so regardless of how much I pay they will continue to take additional money out of my account to force me into shortening the duration of the loan rather than lowering my monthly payments. I have already submitted a letter indicating I do not want to advance my payment schedule, they continue to ignore my requests.
Company Response:
State: NY
Zip: 11106
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-08-01
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-08-01
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Subissue: Account information incorrect
Consumer Complaint: I have on several occasions disputed with the student loan company as well as the three major credit bureaus that they are reporting four of my student loans being XXXX or 120 days past due and this is incorrect ... I have current and updated proof that these loans are reporting correctly in XXXX which is the information system that at least one of the major bureaus if not all three bureaus collect their information from
Company Response:
State: GA
Zip: 30331
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-08-01
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2017-08-01
Issue: Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem
Subissue: Investigation took more than 30 days
Consumer Complaint: Sold accounts from the original creditor still shown on the reports with duplicate purchased accounts from the new creditor. All accounts reporting late even though deferments were applied for and approved
Company Response:
State: NC
Zip: 27617
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2017-08-01
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A