Consumer complaint received 2024-03-22 00:00:00
Product: Student loan — Federal student loan servicing
Issue: Struggling to repay your loan — Problem with forgiveness, cancellation, or discharge
Company: MOHELA
State: VA

Complaint narrative:
on XX/XX/XXXX i received an email from the U.S. Department of Education which stated ; XX/XX/XXXX Dear XXXX XXXX : Subject : Student Loan Discharge Based on Borrower Defense Evidence The Department of Education ( " Department '' ) has determined that the loan ( s ) you received to attend a school owned and operated by XXXX XXXX XXXX from XX/XX/XXXX through its closure in XX/XX/XXXX are eligible for full loan discharge. This means the remaining balance on the loan ( s ) will be forgiven. You do not have to make any more payments on the loan ( s ). 

Your loan ( s ) will be discharged as part of a Department action ( " Group Discharge '' ) to discharge all outstanding loans for attendance at XXXX XXXX XXXX that first began from XX/XX/XXXX through closure in XX/XX/XXXX after finding that it engaged in widespread misconduct that violated state consumer protection laws and/or made widespread substantial misrepresentations about its educational programs, both of which are grounds for borrower defense to repayment under the borrower defense regulations ( 34 C.F.R. 685.206 and/or 685.222 ). The Department is discharging your loans without requiring you to file an application because of the pervasive and widespread nature of the school 's conduct. 

You also may receive a refund for prior payments made to the Department on your discharged loan ( s ) related to XXXX XXXX XXXX. Your servicer will let you know if you are eligible for a payment refund, which would be mailed to you. Please check your online account with your loan servicer to ensure your address is correct so you can receive any refund. Otherwise, you do not have to take any further action to receive your discharge. Your credit report will also be updated to reflect this discharge when it is complete. 

If you do not wish to accept this discharge, please contact your servicer within 30 days of receiving this letter. 

It will take the Department some time to process your discharge. Until the Department completes its work, your eligible loan ( s ) from XXXX XXXX XXXX will remain paused in forbearance/stopped collections, and we will not ask you to resume making payments. If your loan ( s ) are in default, we will not attempt to collect on the loan ( s ) being discharged. If you have other loans not covered by this group discharge, you will enter repayment and/or collections when the national pause on student loan repayment and collections ends. 
_____________________________________________________________________ Since this email my student loans were moved from XXXX to Mohela- without my authorization. i have called and worked with Mohela for months/years now to get these loans discharged and they continue to say that they have nothing to do with it. the US Department of Education would do that. I call the US Department of Education and they tell me the issue would be with the loaner provider ( Mohela ) I have been playing this XXXX XXXX XXXX ever since and haven't gotten anywhere.

Company public response: Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation