Under the bipartisan deal, automakers would develop a restructuring plan and submit it with their loan applications to the government agency that will administer the funds.
Consumers should ask these same questions about other extra products offered with their loan, such as auto or shopping clubs, home or auto security plans, and debt cancellation products.
The rationale is simple: If the federal government is already assuming the risk of loans, and no substantial data have been presented to show that the banks are truly making a difference with their loan counseling services, why not cut out the middle man, like Sallie Mae, and free up more money for students?
Grandparents who want to help the next generation, but who may not be able to permanently part with their cash, may consider an informal loan agreement with their grandchild, says Ted Halpern, a Rockville, Md.
Many people cut the link between the endowment and their mortgage, making alternative plans to pay off their home loan with other savings, investments, or a tax-free lump sum from their pension.
Instead, students can cover their bills with a loan, to be repaid once they graduate.
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"Many credible people were public about their dissatisfaction with the mortgage loan market, " says Janet Tavakoli, a structured finance expert with her own Chicago consulting firm.
The Consumer Council has advised those affected to persist with their bank rather than turning to loan companies.
If investors stop rolling over the debt as they did during last year's election campaign until the IMF stepped in with a huge loan their fears of a financial meltdown may become self-fulfilling.
Allowing anyone who faces unreasonable student loan sums compared with their income to seek relief through the courts, as we do with every other kind of debt, would end the horror stories.
Students will be able to choose to limit their student loan payments to 10% of their income, with any remaining balance forgiven after 20 years.
They even work with a loan agency specifically geared to meet their financial needs.
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Banks have taken a close look at their loan portfolios and turned white with fear.
Republicans argue that Obama basically agrees with their approach, which would tie the student loan rate to economic factors instead of leaving it up to Congress.
Most banks were processing the new loans whereas the big banks were shelving them, so most borrowers calling in to speak with their lenders are speaking to servicers of the loan, and not the original company the borrower closed the loan with.
The coming change will allow all borrowers with loans backed by the company, regardless of their loan-to-value ratio, to benefit from the streamlined program.
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It is not easy to explain to a single mother who recently lost her job, or a veteran returning from serving our country, why their bank is sending them a letter offering to modify their loan one day and threatening them with eviction the next.
They're coming out of school with massive student loan debt that prevents them from launching their adult lives.
The grandparents worked with their financial planner, Burk Rosenthal, to structure the loan.
Stern told me he used the funds appropriately, but the feds ended up criminally charging Frenkel for providing Citigroup with bogus information as part of their investigation into the Stern loan debacle.
The Obama administration should work with the SBA to help lenders better police loan delinquencies in their own backyards.
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Just under 15 million households owned their own home in 2011, either with a mortgage or loan, or outright - down 4%.
Some 64% of households - 14.9 million people - owned their own home in 2011, either with a mortgage or loan, or outright.
The nine banks involved in the loan arrangement are trying to deepen their relationship with Alibaba in hopes that they will get to play significant roles in the IPO, other people familiar with the situation said.
Watchdog Consumer Focus also said that it was concerned that some businesses - notably some payday loan companies - had taken larger amounts than agreed with their customers.
The sites make their money offering loan and credit-card deals, along with other services.
Normally an IMF loan comes with strings attached - countries are told to reform their public finances or pension systems or liberalise markets.
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Trusts which are investment vehicles unique to China with little in common with Western-style trust firms enabled banks to stay below their loan quota by using an informal type of securitization to repackage bank loans as investment products.
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