Consumer complaint received 2019-07-30
Company: AES/PHEAA
State: RI
Product: Student loan
Sub-product: Federal student loan servicing
Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer
Sub-issue: Received bad information about your loan

Complaint:
I am utilizing fedloan servicing for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. I have direct federal loans. I attended XXXX XXXX College ( XXXX, RI ) and XXXX University and took out both federal and state loans. After graduating from XXXX in XX/XX/XXXX I began the usual deferment and consolidated my loans to federal loans in order to take advantage of the Federal Service Loan Forgiveness Program. From what I remember my loans were originally controlled by XXXX, from there they were transferred to XXXX, and then finally in early XXXX to Fedloan Servicing. 

My entire experience with all 3 companies has been horrible. I have many complaints, however, I will focus on the two most pressing and damaging to my ability to have my loans forgiven in a fair and timely manner, as is my right under this program.

1st complaint : All 3 companies have created issues that had to result in deferment of my loans when processing my income based repayment plant ( IBR ) and when my loans were transferred between companies. To no fault of my own ( delayed processing, errors in processing - ie. using my wife 's income even though I file separately ) I have had to defer my loans for weeks or months at a time. This resulted in increased loan balances due to accrued interest and an inability for me to work towards my 120 payments. Since working with Fedloan Servicing, every single year I have had to have a deferment of a month or so in order for them to properly process my annual IBR application. I have tried everything imaginable to make sure it is processed correctly the first time, however their level of incompetence is incredible. 

2nd complaint : Qualifying payments. I began working for XXXX   XXXX in XX/XX/XXXX ( XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX   XXXX - XXXX XXXX ). I resigned from XXXX and joined the XXXX XXXX  XXXX in XXXX of XXXX. I submitted my proof of employment to Fedloan servicing for my time spent working for XXXX XXXX. I worked for XXXX for 3 years. However, Fedloan Servicing claimed that I only made 14 qualifying payments during that time. This is utterly untrue. It is possible that due to the deferments, mentioned in complaint 1, that I did not have a full 36 payments, but I certainly had many more than 14. I contacted Fedloan Servicing about this issue numerous times ( starting in XX/XX/XXXX/XX/XX/XXXX when I first received the letter explaining that I only had 14 qualifying payments ) but I never received any explanation. At first they stated that they had no loan history from me from XXXX ( allegedly XXXX did not make them aware of my time with XXXX when they transferred my loans ). Fedloan Servicing stated that they would look into this but never got back to me. I have inquired about the investigation and they have stated that it is ongoing. It has been years at this point and I have still not been able to get to the bottom of this. 

I am hoping that with your help these problems can be rectified. As I am sure you are aware, Fedloan Servicing has been in the national news lately regarding matters listed above. 

Thank You, XXXX XXXX

Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief