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Tips for Avoiding Student Loan Scams

June 26, 2008 03:37 PM ET | Kim Clark | Permanent Link | Print

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please give me some tips for avoiding scam

student loan scams

The main article warns against solicitations that are not from the federal government (Department of Education).

My opinion is that it is precisely the DOE one has to watch, as Marion of RI points out.

I do not know what one can do if one has paid and has receipts. Send them to your U.S. Representative (copies, of course)?

There are so many offenses in the student loan program that I almost (futilely) would advocate eliminating the programs altogether. I never took a student loan and have taught three fields in colleges.

Just get in touch with studentloanjustice.org. Alan Collinge, the founder, works night and day to get some notice for people in trouble with student loans.

Harold Sewell

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how do you go about proving that you paid your loan twenty five years ago. I have all my receipts. who whould i contact? i've tried with the asa and they tell me to pay. right now i'm disabled, nd send in my doctor's letter, but they still keep dunning me and adding interest.

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