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The Higher Education Relief Opportunities For Students (HEROES) Act (Pub. L. 108–76 (text)) was legislation passed unanimously by the United States Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on January 16, 2002. It was extended and amended in 2003, extended in 2005, and made permanent in 2007.
Following the passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, the Federal Direct Loan Program is the sole government-backed loan program in the United States. The program replaced the earlier Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program which issued "guaranteed loans" — loans originated and funded by private lenders but ...
The US first major government loan program was the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), formed in 1973. [19] [clarification needed] Before 2010, federal loans included: loans originated and funded directly by the Department of Education (ED) government guaranteed loans originated and funded by private investors.
Its model of a student loan program—funded by local banks and insured by a non-profit organization—was replicated across the country and by 1965, there were 14 loan guarantors in the United States. [2] In 1990, the United States Department of Education designated MHEAC as the guarantor for Washington, D.C.
Conduent Education Services, formerly ACS Education Services, was a company that serviced private, campus-based and federal student loans. It closed on Sept. 1, 2019, and transferred its loans to ...
The National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) is the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) central database for Federal Student Aid. [1] NSLDS receives data from schools, guaranty agencies, the Direct Loan program , and other ED programs.
The Voluntary Flexible Agreement (VFA) was created by the United States Congress in 1998 during a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The VFA enables Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) guarantors to develop programs and techniques to help borrowers avoid student-loan default and all of its negative consequences. The ...
SLM Corporation (commonly known as Sallie Mae; originally the Student Loan Marketing Association) is a publicly traded U.S. corporation that provides consumer banking.Its nature has changed dramatically since it was set up in the early 1970s; initially a government entity that serviced federal education loans, it then became private and began offering private student loans.