Student loan -- Dealing with your lender or servicer -- Complaint #4817076

Complaint Overview

Complaint ID: 4817076

Company: Aes/Pheaa

Product: Student loan

Sub-Product: Federal student loan servicing

Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer

Sub-Issue: Trouble with how payments are being handled

State: Pennsylvania

ZIP Code: 19147

Date Received: 2021-10-17T12:00:00-05:00

Date Sent to Company: 2021-10-17T12:00:00-05:00

Company Response: Closed with monetary relief

Timely Response: Yes

Consumer Disputed: N/A

Submitted Via: Web

Consumer Narrative

I had made student loan payments through XXXX during the Covid forbearance time as I did not know that payments were not required. I also learned in XX/XX/XXXX that I might qualify for loan forgiveness, so I applied and my loans were transferred to FedLoans in XX/XX/XXXX. I had made payments from XX/XX/XXXX through XX/XX/XXXX. Once they had been transferred to FedLoans on XX/XX/XXXX, I was told I could request a refund for the payments made during the Covid forbearance period but I needed to wait for them to receive all the information from XXXX. I initially made the refund request through FedLoans on XX/XX/XXXX. I did not hear anything back, so I contacted FedLoans again on XXXX and was told that they could not find my payment history as it had " not been transferred yet '' from XXXX. I requested my payment history be mailed to me during that same phone call. I called again on XXXX, where again I was told that they could not find my payments. On XXXX, I called and they had found my payments and were initiating the refund request. I called on XX/XX/XXXX to verify that the request had been initiated, and was told it would take 60 days. I didn't hear anything for a while, so I called on XX/XX/XXXX and spoke with XXXX # XXXX who again verified that my request had been initiated, but told me it could take up to 90 days. I called again on XX/XX/XXXX and spoke with XXXX # XXXX, confirming the request once again. On XX/XX/XXXX, I could see in my FedLoans account online that my loan total had been increased by the amount of my payments that I had requested for refund. The added values were {$13000.00} principle and {$17.00} interest, for a total of {$13000.00}. I called that same day to see when my bank account would be issued the refund. I was told that they were waiting for the Department of Education to review the request and issue the refund. I did not receive any refunds, so I called on XXXX and was told that I was waiting on either the Dept of Education or the Dept of Treasury to issue my refund. I made several attempts to contact someone in both of those departments, but kept getting the run around about who was responsible for issuing my refund and where it might be in the process. I filed a report with the Ombudsman on XXXX and have received several email updates over the last 5 weeks, all saying that they do not have any more information and are still looking into the issue. Overall, the process started in XX/XX/XXXX and they are supposedly working through it. The refund for all my past Covid forbearance payments has not yet been issued to my bank account.

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