USA Funds Update

USA Funds Launches Online Training for Education Lenders
USA Funds^® has announced the release of five online-training courses to help education-lending professionals understand their responsibilities for administering the Federal Family Education Loan Program. Read the announcement.

USA Funds Offers Fall Financial-Aid Workshops
USA Funds’ Fall-2006 Financial-Aid Workshop series begins in October at locations across the country. The free workshops offer the latest information to help financial-aid professionals administer federal student loans and other financial-aid programs. Learn more.

USA Funds Grant to Help Indiana Improve Tracking of Twenty-first Century Scholars
A grant from USA Funds will help three Indiana state agencies enhance reporting and information-sharing for a program that promotes college access for seventh- and eighth-grade students from low-to-moderate-income families. Read more.

USA Funds Lists Top-100 Lenders
USA Funds lists the top-100 lenders of USA Funds-guaranteed loans for the year through August. Read the list.

Debt-Management Perspectives

USA Funds Web Site Helps Borrowers Keep ‘Promises’
The Loan-Payment Solutions feature on the USA Funds Web site is successfully encouraging student-loan borrowers with seriously past-due accounts to keep their promises to resolve their payment problems. Learn more.

Operations Bulletin

Department Clarifies Consolidation Policy
The U.S. Department of Education recently issued guidance clarifying that a borrower with any eligible federal education loan may consolidate that loan, even if the borrower has only a single loan to be consolidated. Read more.