MOHELA Student Loan Complaint

Federal student loan servicing Dealing with my lender or servicer trouble with how payments are handled

MOHELA Student loan department,

Federal student loan servicing Dealing with my lender or servicer Trouble with how payments are handled Pennsylvania

I have made payments in excess of the amount due on the loans. I did this a few times until I noticed that my balance due was -. I continued to make payments in excess of the amount due however they were now only going to interest or nearly all going to interest. There is no way to know what the interest owed for the period is on each loan. This was a year ago. I called and complained telling them that I wanted a detailed listing of interest accrual by loan since I have - loans so that I could balance out what I have paid to what they have posted to my loans. They could/would not provide but tried to talk me through it. I ended the call by telling them I wanted any additional payments to go to the higher interest loans instead of the lower interest ones which is what they had been doing. I also wanted them to stop sending me bills with no balance due if there was in fact interest due that they were going to apply my payment to. They said I needed to send the request in writing which I did.


applied to the lower interest rate accounts. So I call again about the issue. The service rep tells me that they have no record of my request and that I need to request it again and they are doing everything in accordance with the agreement and cant change how they are billing. I explain I already sent in the request. She said they do n't have it so I would have to send it in again. I asked for a different channel than the email that they had me use last time and she said they do n't have one. Then she went to her manager because I would n't accept that answer. Suddenly they did have a form letter that they could send me. When I asked if there was a way to verify the documentation so that I would not end up in the same situation with them having conveniently not receiving it and having no evidence it was sent she was very uncooperative and I had to basically pull it out of her if there was a way to track it other than certified mail which I did n't want to do. In the end this company since purchasing my student loan has done nothing but underhandedly try to hide where payments are going and not apply payments as requested in order to maintain higher interest payments.

MOHELA customer in Pennsylvania
Sep 09, 2016

* Source: CFPB Complaint Database

MOHELA response to complaint:
Closed with explanation

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