Consumer complaint received 2018-11-21
Product: Debt collection — Private student loan debt
Issue: Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly — Contacted your employer
Company: National Recoveries, Inc. (KY)

XX/XX/XXXX I was told to go to HR at the company I work for. When I got there I was told that this company called National Recoveries Inc had mailed some forms to them about garnishing my pay. They wanted to take 15 % of my income. This is a lot and it is going to cause a financial hardship on me and my wife. Plus 15 years ago XXXX XXXX after months of communicating back and forth with them about my loan. See I went to college because I wanted to work on a XXXX XXXX, so I had to major in XXXX  and XXXX. I went to sign up for classes and met a financial aid person and she helped me sign up for a loan. I told her that I had a XXXX XXXX and she told me that was ok because in 2 years I would be working on a XXXX XXXX. I signed up for my classes. I failed 3 of my classes and got a XXXX on another one. So I had to take those classes all over again. I talked to financial aid and asked what I should do and she told me not to worry about it everything was going to be alright and she suggested that I just take other courses and then go back and repeat the failed courses last. I wanted to get math out of the way so I took it again and failed again. So once again I went to see the financial aid lady and she said for me not to worry about it. I got 2 XXXX   and 2 XXXX.

Coming back from spring break I went to see the financial aid lady and asked her what I should do she said for me not to worry about it she would go and talk to my math teacher to see what we could do. She told me just to think about working on a XXXX XXXX. I went to math class that day and after class the math teacher asked if he could see me after class. After class I went to see him and he introduced me to someone who was going to tutor me. I met with my tutor and I told her I am really trying but that I can't remember anything and that I didn't understand anything. She worked real hard. The big test came and the math teacher said I would need a XXXX on the test to pass the course. I got a XXXX. My tutor asked me how I was doing in my other classes and I should her my grades and she asked me why I was still in school. I told her that the financial aid lady told me that I would be working on a XXXX XXXX like I wanted to. I told my tutor that I went and talked to the financial aid lady about dropping out and she just kept telling me that I would be working on a XXXX XXXX when I leave college. My tutor asked me what I wanted to really do and I said I am just getting all XXXX and XXXX and I should probably drop out. I decided I was going to go and talk to the financial aid lady again but this time I asked my tutor if she would go with me. We went to the financial lady 's office and I told her that I wanted to drop out of school and she asked me why I told her I was getting all XXXX and XXXX and she told me that I had a dream of working on a XXXX XXXX and we will make sure it happens. While we were talking my tutor was reading my loan papers. The financial aid lady got me to sign the loan papers so I held my breath and signed them. I started to date my tutor and we ended up getting married and I did drop out of school. I went to work and my new wife continued her college and she graduated. She went to work in a XXXX XXXX Her older brother invited us to go and live in XXXX  and he could get me a job where he works. So we moved to XXXX, to make a long story short me and my wife ended up homeless. I called XXXX XXXX and got a forbearance. My wife started getting really sick and all the drs in XXXX said it was in her head. We ended up going back to XXXX. Time went on and I got another forbearance and then another forbearance and now my wife is being rushed into XXXX. She was in the operating room for 9 and a half hours. She almost died. My wife was really sick it wasn't all in her head. She was XXXX XXXX for almost a year after that XXXX. During the time my wife was recuperating she reread my loan papers and on the back of the loan papers it said if a student doesn't keep up a XXXX GPA they would not qualify for any loans. My GPA was always way below a XXXX. My wife told me I should of never gotten those loans and that XXXX XXXX was irresponsible in giving you those loans. My wife knew other financial aid people and come to find out the lady that was getting me to stay in college was making commission on the loans. I started calling XXXX XXXX   and a months of talking to them and they talked to others. XXXX XXXX said I fell threw the cracks and I shouldn't of been getting loans and because everyone failed me a young impressionable man they were going to write off my loan. I never thought anymore about it, until I showed up for work and HR showed me the forms. I never even heard from anyone. I tried to call the college to get any paper work I could and XXXX College closed.