Debt collectors work with universities, colleges and private lenders to collect student loans. For education loans backed by the federal government, the U.S. Department of Education has a clearly-defined collection program that uses private collection agencies. Recent changes in federal law will shift all previously federally backed loans to direct loans from the federal government, cutting private lenders out of the equation.

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State AGs Push Loan Forgiveness for Students of For-Profit College Purchased by Debt Collector

10 April 2015

Account Control Technology Foundation Releases "Beware the Debt Monster" Video forNational Financial Literacy Month

10 April 2015

Free Teleseminar: Top 10 Myths about Government & Student Loan RFPs

7 April 2015

ARM Firms Gear Up For Oral Arguments in Student Loan Debt Collection Contract Dispute

7 April 2015

Collection Industry Gets Some Positive Attention in Media this Week

3 April 2015

Democrat and Chronicle Recognizes ConServe as #1 Among Rochester's Top Workplaces

31 March 2015

Doubt Creeping into Viability of Student Loan Collection Market

25 March 2015

Collection Agencies Choose Sides in Busy Week for ED Contract Protest Case

20 March 2015

Mike Ginsberg to Moderate a Roundtable at the iA Institute's Larger Market Participant Summit

17 March 2015

ED Student Loan Debt Collection Contract Mess Moves to the Courts

13 March 2015

What Does Everyone Think of the Student Loan Collection Sector Now?

12 March 2015

Executive Change: Maureen Peterson Named President of CEANNATE Corp

12 March 2015

Collector Layoffs Proceed at ED Contractors as Obama Announces Student Loan Changes

10 March 2015

Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation Issues RFP for Collection Services

4 March 2015

CEANNATE Corp. Establishes Strategic Advisory Board; Former ED Secretary Margaret Spellings Named Chair

3 March 2015

Navient Acquires Government Collection Firm Gila/Municipal Services Bureau

2 March 2015

ED's Decision on Debt Collection Contract Terminations is Hasty and Will Have Dire Consequences

2 March 2015

Department of Education Ending Contracts with Five Student Loan Collection Agencies

1 March 2015

Pending ED Debt Collection Procurement Completion Prompts Teleseminar on Student Loan Subcontracting

18 February 2015

Executive Change: Coast Professional Names Roxanne Baker President

10 February 2015