Scott Williams 🐧Seeing this on an NCES sub-site today, though the homepage appears to still be up.
Now including data from #DeptEd as well. Added more CDC data. More on the way!
https://git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata/DeptEd
https://git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata/DeptEd
If you're looking for an archive of #DeptED #NCES data:
Just got a letter from #DeptEd that says (despite news reports to the contrary) that the new administrative forbearance for #studentloans will count towards #PSLF and IDR forgiveness credits. That's at least a sliver of good news in the midst of a lot of bad news.
Depending on which paperwork from #MOHELA is valid, I either should have had around 1.5 years of payments as of last November or I still need to make 8 years worth of payments. I have been working in public sector since 2012.
OK, after a lot of back-and-forth, they finally agreed to re-process the paperwork I (properly re-) submitted in December to fix their previous Consolidation screw up. They also agree to put in a administrative forbearance through May to give them time to process the paperwork and count that time toward PSLF.
I advised that my payment count has dropped since consolidating and that I would be checking in *after* the SAVE/IDR mess is finally cleared up.
The #MOHELA lady came back and said they it's not possible to stay on the #SAVE plan when you consolidate direct loans and so MOHELA didn't mess up (near verbatim quote). I protested saying I have the paperwork to show that SAVE application along with the Consolidation from #DeptEd. She admitted that she sees that, too, and... place me back on hold.
Roughly 2 hours in, I got transferred to someone in training who said they couldn't reprocess my already approved IDR/SAVE application, but that I would need to re-apply which triggered a higher payment and said I would need to take a general, not administrative forbearance to cover their mess up. It was at this moment, I decided lost my cool and was placed back on hold while they "consult about further options".