I’m a person who likes to keep his finances in order, payoff bills on time etcetera. Well I recently decided to consolidate my 2 student loans to cut on my interest costs and reduce the risk of missing a payment – because I set up automatic payment. I was approved for the consolidation, and informed the agency of my two payoff amounts. I thought all was taken care of – just sit back and wait for the one new bill to be withdrawn from my checking account. Apparently the payoff money hasn’t reached my lenders yet because I received a late payment letter in the mail for one of the loans.
Now, it’s only 7 days past due, and this is my first time missing a payment in three years; however, they informed 2 credit agencies and garnished my state tax return. The loan only has $2,000 left and the late payment fee is 3 freekin’ dollars, both I can live with. But to take my entire state tax return and report the delinquency to two credit companies? That just pissed me off. I was trying to pay the whole thing off for gods sake.
Why am I protecting them? It was SCSU. Don’t they have enough of my money?
Apparently, around tax time they do it for every late account regardless of how late it is. Ridiculous. I’ve called them and they are going to give me my money back (less this months loan payment), but I’m still mad about the policy. They had already flagged my account because of how close to my due date it was, and were expecting my call. They had the form already filled out to generate a check for me, but they wait until the student calls in and says WTF. Looks like they just try to get as much as they can. Vultures.
V-Daddy! says:
another reason why going to college is a waste!
I say, Study twice as hard in Highschool and just use adobe to print out a college degree!
April 22, 2003 — 12:53 pm
Illiterati says:
Demand interest on the 3 dollars!
April 22, 2003 — 4:27 pm
jonathan says:
hey tim, just another update from UW-Stout. it seems police have caught an extremley sex depraived student with a few hundred pairs of stolen panties in his dorm. i guess he wasn’t getting any action from the fat hairy chicks. anyway, check ABC news for details. we saw thier news van outside his dorm a few hours ago (they must keep one on standby for us).
April 22, 2003 — 10:27 pm
JAH says:
GO WILD!!!
April 23, 2003 — 10:07 am
Anon says:
Yeah!!!!! Go Wild!!!!1 Woooooo.
Oh, you were talking about he Minnesota wild, I get it.
April 23, 2003 — 2:55 pm
me too says:
I hear ya man. They did the same thing to me.
April 23, 2003 — 8:24 pm
MostlyHarmless says:
I let my student loan dwindle down to nothing over the course of 9-10 years. First my payment was $80-something a month, then they kept reducing it to $70… then $60… then $50… then $45… It also changed hands a few times over the years.
The result is that my credit report lists that same student loan _seven_ times. They are all listed as active, too, which lowers my credit rating because I (supposedly) have too many active accounts. My credit rating is still pretty freakin’ high though. 🙂
April 25, 2003 — 10:40 am