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USA Funds^® offers extensive debt-management resources to assist financial-aid professionals with student-loan-management and default-prevention efforts.

USA Funds annually presents three Excellence in Debt Management Awards to recognize postsecondary institutions that have successfully developed and implemented effective and creative debt-management programs for their students.

Our Best Practices in Debt Management Manual contains information, publications, downloadable forms, sample correspondence and other tools that will help you curb education-loan defaults. Check back often for new tools and services.

USA Funds Life Skills^®, USA Funds’ financial-literacy program, is a flexible educational program that equips postsecondary institutions to teach their students to manage their time and money wisely while they are on campus and after graduation.

USA Funds Debt Manager^® helps postsecondary institutions stay in touch with their borrowers to promote successful loan repayment.

USA Funds Loan Counselor^® will provide financial-aid professionals with a new online tool that they can customize to automate the entrance- and exit-counseling processes and provide Stafford-loan borrowers with trustworthy advice.

retentionRT^TM offers schools a Web-based predictive modeling tool designed to enhance student retention efforts.

Solving the Retention Puzzle is an online resource to help campus administrators boost student retention and reduce loan defaults.

retentionRT^TM is a Web-based predictive modeling tool designed to enhance retention efforts by combining student survey information with historical data to identify students at risk of leaving school early.

Debt-management workshops provide the most recent tips and techniques for reducing your school’s default rate.

USA Funds offers an enhanced Borrower Debt Management Information Service that provides schools with tools to use with students during exit counseling.

Other Tools and Resources contains the latest debt-management news, default-prevention tools and repayment and loan-consolidation calculators.

Debt-management initiatives — helping you
The USA Funds Debt-Management Team provides free one-on-one consultations to help postsecondary institutions fine-tune their default-prevention efforts. The Default-Prevention Council consists of financial-aid professionals who develop and disseminate best practices in debt-management to their colleagues on campuses nationwide.

Thanks
We would like to thank the institutions that have participated with the USA Funds Default-Prevention Council or have allowed us to share their best practices.

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We welcome your feedback and contributions to this site. Please contact the debt-management consultant for your state.