Presented to MASFAA 2021, this session discusses student loan debt letters. This presentation will help practitioners understand how to write clear debt letters and how to better convey financial wellness concepts to students

Borrowing for education has increased rapidly in the past several decades, such that the majority of non-housing debt on US households' balance sheets is now student loan debt. This chapter analyzes the implications of student loan borrowing for later-life economic well-being, with a focus on...

Each year, a quarter of a million student loan debtors file for bankruptcy. Of those, fewer than three hundred discharge their educational debt. That is a success rate of just 0.1 percent. This chasm between success and failure is the titular Student Loan Bankruptcy Gap, and it is a phenomenon...

As states across the United States implement laws to force colleges and universities to send their student borrowers debt letters, this study analyzes 24 debt letters to explore: the readability of the letters, the linguistic diversity of the letters, and the content of the debt letters. Results...

Outstanding student loan indebtedness in the United States exceeds $1.67 trillion and it is projected to exceed $2 trillion by 2021 or 2022 (varying by source). The United States has decided that broad access to higher education is an important social policy, and a decision has been made to...

This report highlights how the payment formulas currently underlying Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) can harm low to middle-income borrowers, forcing them to choose between meeting basic needs and paying their monthly student loan bills. Using a series of hypothetical borrower scenarios, the...