AES-PHEAA
Consumer Complaints
There are over 9925 complaints on file for AES-PHEAA. Dated between 2019-12-11 and 2012-03-07.
Complaints Page 71
2019-02-23
Three Bridges, NJ
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Problem with customer service
Complaint: I experience problems and delays every year when it is time to recertify my income driven repayment of my loan with XXXX XXXX. This year, I submitted my recertification documents on or about XX/XX/19 and as of today, over one month later, I still receiving information that my information is not submitted. If this is not rectified by the end of this month, mu loans of nearly {$200000.00} will go into a standard repayment which I can not afford. I keep calling and speaking with different representatives that acknowledge they can see the information I submitted on their end and the process will be expedited, then I check the website and receive emails showing that my recertification can not be processed because it says they have not received the information which is not true. The processing at my XXXX is horrible. Eveything is delayed, including processing of payments and the annual recertification process.
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-23
Tyrone, NM
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Private student loan
Trouble with how payments are being handled
Complaint: My interest rates increase and my payment amount decreases. I've added extra principal to pay off loans earlier but AES keep decreasing the total payment.
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-23
Columbus, OH
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Need information about your loan balance or loan terms
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-23
Itasca, IL
Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem
Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports: Credit reporting
Investigation took more than 30 days
Complaint: I don't really know what section my issue goes under. I attended XXXX XXXX university online in XXXX into some of XXXX. During that time my father got sick and I told the school I needed to leave school to take care of him and the school said ok not a problem. Upon leaving school my student loans became immediately due which I paid my credit report show I paid. After I left school they still had me enrolled and kept automatically reapplying for financial aid without me knowing and I am now forced to pay these loans when I wasn't even attending the school anymore. Also I noticed on my credit report that my student loans show up more than once since they have since been sold at least at couple times. I paid off my student loans for the portion of school I actually attended and the rest is fraudulent as I was not attending school and did not reapply for financial assistance. The school received the funds and kept them without my permission or knowledge and because of my credit is shot I have lost job opportunities and cant even open a bank account or credit card.
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-23
Lafayette Hl, PA
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Trouble with how payments are being handled
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-23
Homewood, IL
Attempts to collect debt not owed
Debt collection: Federal student loan debt
Debt is not yours
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-23
VA
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Received bad information about your loan
Complaint: My student loans are paid through XXXX XXXX XXXX. As a XXXX employee ( XXXX XXXX XXXX ), I tracking each of my payments in order per the terms of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness ( PSLF ) program. In XX/XX/XXXX, I submitted my annual PSLF employment certification. XXXX XXXX XXXX sent back acknowledgment of my federal employment status, along with a list of qualifying payments submitted since the beginning of my repayment plan. I noticed several discrepancies including, but not limited to, missing payments for entire months and missing payments for parts of the loans that are consolidated within the entirety of the loan package. I emailed XXXX XXXX XXXX in XX/XX/XXXX to notify them of the inaccuracies and request an updated list of qualifying payments. I did not receive any responses despite subsequent, monthly email and phone follow-ups. In XX/XX/XXXX I called and was told that my request had just begun processing. In XX/XX/XXXX I called again and was told that XXXX XXXX XXXX required more time. In XX/XX/XXXX I emailed again and did not receive any response at all. In XXXX and XX/XX/XXXX, I was told on the phone to continue to be patient. In XX/XX/XXXX, the representative I spoke with on the phone told me there was a backlog and to wait for an update via email - the representative said the longest outstanding request was from XX/XX/XXXX, so my XX/XX/XXXX request needed to wait longer. In XX/XX/XXXX, I emailed again and AGAIN received NO RESPONSE. In XX/XX/XXXX, I emailed and nearly two weeks later, I received a response stating that these reviews " take a great deal of time. '' It has nearly been a year of my patient requests for updates. This is absurd and the worst customer service I have ever experienced. I have gone through my records and can provide accounting of each payment processed with XXXX XXXX XXXX going back nearly 7 years. I have the bank records showing each payment and can provide these if needed. I am completely baffled and appalled as to why it has taken nearly a year to receive a response from this loan holder to a simple request for an updated review of my account. I am tired of dealing with the inconsiderate, and incredibly, sometimes non-responsiveness of this organization. How can I trust an organization to handle the processing of my student loan payments and, hopeful, future student loan forgiveness if they can not process a simple request?
Company Response: Closed with non-monetary relief
2019-02-23
Stkn, CA
Incorrect information on your report
Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports: Credit reporting
Account information incorrect
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-23
Tampa, FL
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Received bad information about your loan
Company Response: Closed with non-monetary relief
2019-02-22
Los Angeles, CA
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Trouble with how payments are being handled
Complaint: I requested a review of my Public Service Loan Forgiveness qualifying payments in XX/XX/XXXX. XXXX has repeatedly told me they are unable to provide a date by when the review will be completed. Today I asked why 37 of 99 payments are not being credited as qualifying to my loan forgiveness. XXXX says my previous loan servicing companies stated they are not qualifying payments due to the payment not being " fully satisfied ''. XXXX maintains they are unable to provide a timely review and response because these payments were made under two previous loan servicers : 1. XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX and 2. XXXX. I am unable to verify the information on my own other than downloading my payment history and last 3 monthly statements from XXXX. The XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX is not operating any longer and I have no way of obtaining any documentation of payments made prior to XX/XX/XXXX. I graduated in XX/XX/XXXX and entered repayment in XX/XX/XXXX.
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-22
Round Rock, TX
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Received bad information about your loan
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-22
Elmer City, WA
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Problem with customer service
Complaint: In XX/XX/XXXX, I was notified by XXXX that I had adverse credit reporting by XXXX XXXX. I contacted XXXX XXXX and found out the my loan was 120 days late. I had not received any notification from XXXX XXXX concerning this. I immediately remedied the past due amount and made timely payments for a couple of months. I also filed a dispute concerning their reporting due to the fact that I was never notified by XXXX XXXX. I was denied any remedy to my credit report. I again contacted XXXX XXXX on XX/XX/XXXX regarding my dispute with their credit reporting and the fact that I was never contacted. I was informed that their records indicate that I had been notified by letter and by phone calls. I have never received any letters nor phone calls from XXXX XXXX. I believe that someone within their organization has falsified their records. I have always had a high credit rating. This action by XXXX XXXX has ruined by credit. I have always paid my debts in a timely manner. XXXX XXXX refuses to make any changes to their credit reporting. I was never contacted by XXXX XXXX. I am the one who contacted them.
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-22
Nitta Yuma, MS
Incorrect information on your report
Student loan: Private student loan
Account status incorrect
Company Response: Closed with non-monetary relief
2019-02-22
Antlers Park, MN
Incorrect information on your report
Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports: Credit reporting
Account status incorrect
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-22
Houston, TX
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Received bad information about your loan
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-21
IN
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action
Debt collection: Federal student loan debt
Threatened or suggested your credit would be damaged
Complaint: Ive been directly working on building my credit and have worked directly with XXXX XXXX to have every months debt paid prior to due date. Since XX/XX/XXXX, every single month Ive received notices that Im late on my payments. For the months of XXXX and XX/XX/XXXX I paid with XXXX in the amounts of XXXX each. Both were considered lost. It isnt easy to track these transactions. Repeatingly I call with the concern chasing my transactions down. They were able to locate the payments and apply them to my account. As a corrective action I started Bill Pay through my bank. My bank writes out a check ever month on the XXXX of every month to be sent out on the XXXX. This ensures 8 days for XXXX to receive the payment and apply it to my account. Since XXXX for every month I considered late for non payment. Then Im told I stand a chance of bad credit reporting by the automotive system. Then Im made to send proof to XXXX XXXX of my payments. All different forms of validation is used each month. I have clear record of check payments and of stubs to show proof of payments. After making these payments the last thing I need is to receive a text or email stating that I havent paid my bill. Then after ensuring my bank made a payment to call and be asked to take further steps to prove my payments. So for the months of XXXX and XXXX and XX/XX/XXXX I was forced to show proof of payments, also XXXX and now XX/XX/XXXX Im being told that those payment is not yet received. For every month this is a problem Im forced to have a brain vessel burst to prove what should be a very easy task. I have requested for two months now once in XX/XX/XXXX and in XX/XX/XXXX to have a copy of detailed payment history. I have not received a copy of payment history. In my opinion for a person that is trying to actually do the right thing, Im being heavily harassed. As this happened Im drawn away from work, my family and just a piece of mind. There has to be some sort of final fix to this issue. I was told I could set up automatic bill pay where I allow them to take amount due from my checking account. I dont feel comfortable with that form of payment. The bill pay option my bank offers is just as good. They get paid like clockwork.
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-21
San Gabriel, CA
Struggling to repay your loan
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Can't get other flexible options for repaying your loan
Complaint: Im have financial difficulties at the moment and I have been trying to fix my credit and pay off my bills, also trying to refinance my car. please remove any bad reporting on my report. I intention is to pay off my balances.
Thank you
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-20
Scottsdale, AZ
Struggling to repay your loan
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Can't get other flexible options for repaying your loan
Complaint: There are too many dates to list that they have delayed/rejected/improperly handled turning in and approving my IDR request, most recently NOW. A year ago they did the same thing. Everything, including bank statement and pay stubs and request, is rejected without reasons. Every time this happens I am in deferment and, of course, this eats away at time I may need later on in time of true need. I also have issues lowering my payment. My household is paying mine and my husbands loan off and we literally live paycheck to paycheck. Calling is no help ... they don't even understand what I am saying and have no answers. Last year I couldn't even get it straightened out, to the point of taking almost the entire year till I had to recert again. My doctor is saying t hat after analysis of my life style that the greatest stress IS my student loans and the inability to get assistance. PLEASE help me! I have no idea what to do. I am at the point of looking for a class action lawsuit so that I can get some relief!
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-20
IA
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Trouble with how payments are being handled
Complaint: I re-applied for Income Driven Repayment ( ICR ) in early XXXX with my wife who also has a similar amount of student loan debt. We are both XXXX and both went to XXXX XXXX. She received her ICR re-calculation a few days later and it was what we were anticipating it would be, and more importantly, it was something we knew we could afford. When I received mine, it was double the amount of hers and way out of the range of what we were anticipating or budgeting for. She guessed it was because they forgot to include her student loans in the calculation. Instead of approximately {$500.00} per month, the payments were {$910.00}.
We called XXXX XXXX XXXX to inquire on XX/XX/2019. We talked to someone and right away he said " oh yes, sorry about that. XXXX XXXX XXXX did actually calculate it incorrectly. We did not take her debt into consideration. We will place you on an administrative forbearance while we re-calculate. Look for that in the next week or two. '' We were happy because we could not afford the {$910.00} this month or any month.
Two weeks later, we still hadn't heard anything from XXXX XXXX XXXX. The {$910.00} was still showing as due and the ICR had not been re-calculated.
We called back ( which took TWO HOURS to get someone on the phone ) on XX/XX/XXXX. When we finally got someone on the phone, the woman pulled up the account and she saw the ICR request. She said and I am quoting " oh it's our fault, that never got properly submitted. I can see the request but it just did not get submitted internally. '' We were frustrated, but she assured us that she as expediting it. She submitted the ICR and told us she would place the current account amount due of {$910.00} on an administrative forebearance as it was due on XX/XX/XXXX and since it was their fault, she could get that done.
Now it is XX/XX/XXXX and the amount is show as PAST DUE by 8 days because no one at Fed Loan Servicing has done what they said they would do. We have contacted them via email to let them know this was going on ( XX/XX/XXXX ) but we did not receive a response within 48 hours as promised. I can not spend two hours on the phone again trying to get this figured out with them. They need to fix it like they said they would. I have no faith in them as a loan servicer ( this is not the first time they have screwed up my ICR - it literally happens every year ).
I need them to get the {$910.00} that is past due out of the queue like they said they would do originally a month ago. In addition, everything has been accruing interest which also needs to be taken off of what I will owe. This is predatory lending. If they do a poor job and make customer service unavailable to me, they win because they are owed more money. I expect more from my loan servicer.
Company Response: Closed with non-monetary relief
2019-02-20
MA
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Trouble with how payments are being handled
Complaint: I am a XXXX XXXX. I have been part of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program for many years. When I came out of XXXX school in 2009 with a XXXX XXXX in XXXX XXXX I had about {$92000.00} in student debt. I have been a XXXX for these last ten years paying as much as I can a month. Over {$500.00} per month for the last several years, my wife is in the same boat. The amount of money we pay each month is close to {$1000.00}, like having another mortgage. This has kept us from purchasing a home, but we were willing to pay because we are so grateful for our education. I pay currently {$540.00} a month, which is less than the interest on the loan. I'd wager that I have paid between 25K and 35K in the last 10 years, but my loan ( originally XXXX ) is now XXXX. All that money paid and my total has only gone up ... XXXX XXXX dollars. The promise of forgiveness has kept me focus on working hard and paying, even though my balance each month goes up after I send them 100 's of dollars.
To see now that others have completed the program but are being denied forgiveness is totally terrifying. I feel that we were all lied to, and that our future is in jeopardy. The Attorney General seems to be the most focused on this outrage of anyone in the country, and I feel very lucky to be a Massachusetts resident. I need your help, and would like the support of the CFPB to protect my family, and make sure that the promises were made to us over ten years ago are kept.
We became XXXX to help make our communities better, we ignored the chances to make more money in order to give back, because we believe in public service, just like you who are reading this. The ability to be free from these debts after our 10 year commitment, and the chance to by ourselves a small house somewhere and get a dog should not be outrageous dreams that are unattainable.
Please let me know what I need to do, and I will do it. And thank you so much for this chance to fight back and not be bullied by these crooks.
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-20
TX
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Received bad information about your loan
Complaint: I requested an IDR plan via studentloans.gov on XX/XX/XXXX, about a month before my first payment would be due to XXXX XXXX. They sent me a bill for {$310.00} and only billed me for my loans from undergraduate. I have new loans now because I just finished grad school in the summer of XX/XX/XXXX. I called them on XX/XX/XXXX to check in about why my IDR application hadn't been processed because I knew the payment they provided was too high. The person on the phone told me that the application hadn't been processed and I had to request forbearance to avoid making a payment so I requested a forbearance and now, 12 days later, it was never processed and there's no record that I requested as forbearance. I submitted a complaint through their ombuds and they told me that I never requested a one month forbearance on my original IDR application and they sent me a copy of a paper application ( I completed the application online ). I'm on the phone with them now and they're telling me that I need to pay a minimum of {$5.00} to switch my loans to an IDR plan and that my IDR application is done, yet my account still says I'm 12 days past due and that I owe them {$1300.00}. At no point have they contacted me to tell me my IDR application was approved, to tell me what my payments would be, to tell me what loans do or do not qualify. There is a " request summary '' on my account homepage that has a status bar that says they received my IDR request, but nothing further has been done. I'm on the phone now with XXXX # XXXX and he's telling my application has been processed, I just need to pay a {$5.00} min to get my loans switched over to a new plan. I'm so confused and angry because every time I call their customer service folks give me different answers. They don't know what they're talking about and then they don't follow through. There was a note on my account that said they weren't going to do the forbearance because my loans were in queue or something of that nature. He's now saying that the person tried to place the forbearance on all my loans instead of the ones I was originally billed for, which is why the forbearance never went through. I paid the {$5.00} minimum and the customer service person, XXXX, notated this on my account. I'm not sure why I had to pay {$5.00} for my request to be processed however.
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-20
MA
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Received bad information about your loan
Complaint: My spouse recently had some changes made to her income and since I'm on an IBR I sent in the appropriate paperwork to make a change ( XX/XX/19 ). All paperwork ( paystubs ) were sent in and the correct filing was done. 30 days later on XX/XX/19 I was denied a change. The explanation was that the paperwork was " more than 90 days old ''. The pay date for the subs sent in was from XX/XX/19 which still isn't 90 days old.
I called on XX/XX/19 to have them check and the rep said that it was a mistake and all the paperwork was filed correctly. He said that I would have it corrected within 10 days. I called 14 days later ( XX/XX/19 ) when nothing had changed and was told that it was still processing and that I needed to wait. Meanwhile I've had to make 2 months worth of payments calculated on a salary that is larger than it is currently. I am so sick of constantly waiting for these people while I'm held to a perfect standard when it comes to my own actions. Please help.
Company Response: Closed with non-monetary relief
2019-02-20
MD
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Received bad information about your loan
Complaint: I have been enrolled in PSLF since I have been working for the state and federal government since I've graduated from my XXXX XXXX degree ( FYI, I received by degree in the XXXX XXXX from XXXX University so I couldn't select it in the form ). When I started with the state government in XXXX, my loan repayment program was income driven until I moved to the federal government in XXXX. When I moved to the federal government in XXXX I moved to a ten year repayment plan schedule which moved my monthly payment to approximately {$450.00}. Starting in XXXX my current employer offered to pay part of my loan down at the amount of $ XXXX. They've paid this amount for XXXX and XXXX, however, my monthly payment did not go down. I've requested Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency ( PHEAA ) as to why my monthly payment would not be reduced as my loan amount has reduced by 50 %. I've called them and emailed them several times over the past month and they refuse to recalculate my monthly payment and have stopped responding to me. I am quite confused as to why my monthly payment would not be reduced when I'm trying to pay off my loan prior to the PSLF end date in XXXX. I have conversations documented via email.
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-20
Tahlequah, OK
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Trouble with how payments are being handled
Company Response: Closed with explanation
2019-02-20
Fort Wayne, IN
Dealing with your lender or servicer
Student loan: Federal student loan servicing
Received bad information about your loan
Company Response: Closed with explanation