Debt-Management Perspectives

USA Funds Adds New Online Resource to Help Student Loan Borrowers
USA Funds^® introduces USA Funds Loan Solutions^SM, a new online resource to help student loan borrowers keep track of their loans and resolve repayment problems. Read more.

Team Helps Resolve Repayment Problems
USA Funds supports a team of 250 default prevention professionals who in 2008 successfully averted default on nearly 93 percent of the seriously past-due education loans on which they provided assistance. Learn more.

Washington Report

Lawmakers Question Administration’s Student Loan Budget Proposal
Several members of Congress are questioning the Obama administration’s 2010 budget proposal to eliminate the Federal Family Education Loan Program. Read more.

Operations Bulletin

Education Department Details Parent PLUS Loan Auction
The U.S. Department of Education has published details of the parent PLUS loan auction mandated by the College Cost Reduction and Access Act. Read more.

February 2009 Integrated Common Manual Available
The February 2009 Integrated Common Manual is available on the USA Funds Web site. View and print the Integrated Common Manual, including the summary of changes approved Feb. 19, 2009, by the Common Manual Governing Board. You will need Adobe Reader to access the documents.

USA Funds Update

USA Funds University Spring Workshops Begin April 7
USA Funds’ Financial Aid Workshops will kick off the spring 2009 series in Houston on April 7. Sixty workshops are planned across the nation this spring to help keep schools informed about changes in federal policy, cohort default rates and other key financial aid issues. Learn more.

USA Funds to Sponsor Statehood Anniversary Events, Robotics Competition
USA Funds will sponsor events commemorating Hawaii’s 50th anniversary of statehood, support robotics education for elementary and secondary school students in the state, and sponsor an expansion of a college- and career-readiness program for high school students. Read more.