How a student loan can ruin your life

STUDENT LOAN STORIES: You are not alone with this burden. Many people are struggling to find ways to repay their student loans. Here are some of the student loan stories sent to me by people who have visited this site.

Your story is similar to mine!
I am waiting right now to see if they will dismiss my loan from 1987. I had no GED or HS Diploma and my student loan ballooned to $16,000!

They have had my dismissal papers since Feb. 5th and they say I will not hear anything until around May 2nd. I am praying so hard that it is dismissed. This loan has practically RUINED MY LIFE!

They take my husbands tax refund every year and through an injured spouse form, he can get half of it back. They waited over 20 years to start doing this! My husband was so surprised last year when we got the notice that neither of us knew about until we did our taxes.

I am sick of the department of education. They had the nerve to call my landlady and ask her if I lived here and wanted information on me. I don't think that was right of them to do. I don't even know if that was legal for them to do.

My story:
I was 22 years old and had a 5 year old daughter and I desperately wanted to have a good job to take care of her. I went to LAWTON Business College and took secretarial courses. I signed a lot of papers and I don't remember any tests or anything, but I do know that
I didn't have a ged or hs diploma.

The school was suppose to place me in a job and guess what....... the school CLOSED! Now I know when I went there, I didn't sign for a $16,000 loan it got that large over 20 years.

I don't work I had an injury in 2003 and can't, but I don't have disability yet, but it is applied for. I was told you can claim to have a dismissal on disability also, but I haven't heard anything about my claim on that yet.

If I were you I'd try to get it dismissed again. There has to be a lawyer you can talk to about this. Good Luck to all of us who tried to better our lives and got smacked by the department of education and their rude employees.

Thank you
SV

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