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Education Department cancels $1.5 billion in student debt for 79,000 borrowers subjected to ‘false promises’ by Westwood College


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On 9/1/2022 at 11:53 PM, shifter said:

Omfg. My wife got her degree from Westwood and still owes $47k. I thought we were going to get $20k in cancelation and now it's 100%? I'm in shock. 

I hope this is the case for her!

Posted
On 9/2/2022 at 12:53 AM, shifter said:

Omfg. My wife got her degree from Westwood and still owes $47k. I thought we were going to get $20k in cancelation and now it's 100%? I'm in shock. 

Glad to hear this.  Im trying to see if my family members qualify.  This is good news.

  • 6 months later...
Posted
On 9/3/2022 at 1:11 PM, hegemony said:

I hope this is the case for her!

Just got a letter from the ED confirming the full cancellation of her $47k in student loans!

 

Naturally it will probably take them 2 years to process it, but that doesn't bother me in the least!

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Just now, shifter said:

Just got a letter from the ED confirming the full cancellation of her $47k in student loans!

 

Naturally it will probably take them 2 years to process it, but that doesn't bother me in the least!

wow! congratulations!!!

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5 minutes ago, hegemony said:

wow! congratulations!!!

Pretty excited. Of course I just calculated we paid about $37k on the $52k in loans over the past 14 years, mostly interest obviously. So she certainly didn't come away with a free "education"...

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On 4/10/2023 at 7:50 PM, shifter said:

Pretty excited. Of course I just calculated we paid about $37k on the $52k in loans over the past 14 years, mostly interest obviously. So she certainly didn't come away with a free "education"...

 

It would seem that both "free" and "education" are questionable terms here ...

  • 3 months later...
Posted
On 4/10/2023 at 7:43 PM, shifter said:

Just got a letter from the ED confirming the full cancellation of her $47k in student loans!

 

Naturally it will probably take them 2 years to process it, but that doesn't bother me in the least!

Didn't take 2 years after all, only 4 months. Everything has been wiped out on Mohela as of today. I only noticed because they deposited $1600 in our bank account - I guess some kind of interest refund or whatever. Can't complain.

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On 8/14/2023 at 11:53 AM, shifter said:

Didn't take 2 years after all, only 4 months. Everything has been wiped out on Mohela as of today. I only noticed because they deposited $1600 in our bank account - I guess some kind of interest refund or whatever. Can't complain.

So my wife just got a check in the mail from the Treasury dept. Says Fed Student Loan Refund.

 

It was over $16k.

 

Wow. I thought the $1,600 was nice. No idea how they calculated all this, but it's kind of crazy to say the least to get nearly $17.7k on top of the $47k loan cancellation.

Posted
On 8/17/2023 at 2:23 PM, shifter said:

So my wife just got a check in the mail from the Treasury dept. Says Fed Student Loan Refund.

 

It was over $16k.

 

Wow. I thought the $1,600 was nice. No idea how they calculated all this, but it's kind of crazy to say the least to get nearly $17.7k on top of the $47k loan cancellation.

wow! congrats to her! Use it wisely.

  • 1 year later...
Posted
On 8/17/2023 at 3:23 PM, shifter said:

Wow. I thought the $1,600 was nice. No idea how they calculated all this, but it's kind of crazy to say the least to get nearly $17.7k on top of the $47k loan cancellation.

Following up, they ended up refunding even more - every dollar we had paid in P+I over the years. Just FYI for anyone who is lucky enough to fall into this loan cancellation program, you should get every dollar back. After the initial check, I called them to find out how they calculated it and they said it was all my payments. Thankfully I have perfect records going back to 2003, so I added up the payments and I told them what they sent was less than half of the total payments. They said they would review it and a week later we got another check and another bank deposit for the rest. So keep good records and don't assume they will get it right the first time!

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