Sallie Mae Student Loan Complaint

Non-federal student loan Can't repay my loan can't get flexible payment options

Sallie Mae Student loan department,

Non-federal student loan Can't repay my loan Can't get flexible payment options New Jersey

Since my repayment period has began -/-/2015, Sallie Mae has been uncooperative after multiple attempts to negotiate repayment amounts. I have explained on multiple occasions the difficulties I have been having, such as my father 's passing, followed by - with no health insurance. They refused to acknowledge my financial hardship and did not reach out to me until after my credit score dropped tremendously ( over - points ) as well as my cosigners ' scores. I had proof of both my father 's passing and my ectopic and was willing to submit it for them to work with me. Still they said the best they could do was $1600.00 a MONTH! Initially they insisted that this was the absolute lowest payment they could accept with no exceptions and my credit was already shot before I could ever even try to refinance. When I walked into the numerous banks and told them I was looking to consolidate with Sallie Mae Loans, they said " we do n't mess with them. '' Only - gave us a chance, and even then it was too late, our credit had been damaged. $1600.00 was " the lowest they could go '' because


cosigners. I explained that it was still was not affordable for me and they assured me once again that this is the absolute lowest that they could offer me. A few months later they contacted me again with a " Limited Time Offer '' in which they could somehow accept $600.00 a month WITH financial statements. However at this point I had already been looking into bankruptcy options. ( Unbelievable that my personal debt is less then $5000.00, but I thought I had no other options, so I was willing to have a bankruptcy on my record just so they could stop destroying my family and so they 'd legally have to work with me!! ) The only slightly helpful option that they made aware to me, was that whenever I put my loans into forbearance, they were somehow able to clear my previous overdue balance with a $50.00 charge per loan which brought it out of deferment and stopped the calls for a month. Then we were right back at square one with no options, until THAT option came up again. After my loans being overdue for a while they made this offer again however they only gave me one month without notifying me that I would have to pay the $50.00 charge for every month instead of putting the forbearance down for multiple months initially. We were unable to pay the $50.00 x - = $150.00 payment again because we did n't know we would have to as we were n't filled in on all of the details again. As the calls continued, they got nastier and more frequent. Now I 'm being harassed at my place of employment even after I 've answered numerous phone calls to my personal line, and asked them repeatedly to not call my job and risk my personal business along with my career at risk or they 'll never get paid! I never listed my work number or gave right to call me on it. After bringing up filing for bankruptcy, they were a lot more eager to try to work out a deal, but at that point, after being - years old, working hard on a - Credit score, to watch it fall under - for doing what I thought was the right thing by going to - .... Who cares right? Beaten, Tired, And Fed Up. I Hope they get whats coming to them. For what it 's worth I 'm a very hard worker who does n't spend money on anything unless I need to. My debt before Sallie Mae/-? Less than $ -. Got ta love it! I wish the multiple choice section below was able to select more then one bubble. These people are truly the devil.

Sallie Mae customer in New Jersey
Jan 20, 2017

* Source: CFPB Complaint Database

Sallie Mae response to complaint:
Closed with explanation

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