January 2012
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Senior Citizen with Student Loan Debt
To All,
I decided to attend college at the age of 46 after getting divorced and working at jobs making $8.00 an hour to support myself and family. The borrow of monies to complete my degree in Sociology with a concentration in Social Work amounted to $41,000 dollars, the loan is now up to $51,000+ due to forbearance and inability to pay any interest of part of the loan in these past 9 years. I...
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Top 10 Colleges with the Highest and Lowest Debt →
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scared to go back to school
I am lucky. I didn’t go into debt for my undergraduate studies. I took out a few small loans for cooking school and art school, but I was able to pay off the $5000. After graduating from Shimer College with a BA in the Humanities and Social Sciences, my job situation didn’t improve. I was working as an underemployed Massage Therapist then. I work as a seriously underemployed Massage...
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Lawsuit against Citibank Student Loan, California...
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Same tuition... lower salaried professions
Same tuition… lower salaried professions!
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Typical Story
I lost my job in 2008. I lost my home to foreclosure, I lost my car, I lost everything. One thing I did not lose was my student loans. When I defaulted my balance was $28,000. Afterwards my balance is just over $40,000. I am employed and working again thank god but I cannot see a way out from under this debt. Between child support, student loan payments, and rent I am barely getting by. I...
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Sallie Mae Private Student Loans Nightmare
I am a 32 female going back to school. I thought mortgage was my career and the market dropped out from under me. So I went back to school, but aimlessly and took out a lot of school loans. I have 4 private school loans through Sallie Mae now about $114,000 and growing. I finally know what I want to do, but I have a lot more school ahead of me. I also have regular school loans about $56,000...