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Navient offers and services federal and private student loans for qualified applicants. It allows students to manage their accounts via its website, providing access to educational tools and budgeting spreadsheets. Its rates are determined by Congress, but it offers a discount for students who set up automatic payments. Borrowers can pay on the website, over the phone or by mail.

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Pros
  • Military benefits
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  • Auto-pay discounts
Cons
  • 2017 lawsuit
  • Can’t pay by credit card

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed March 3, 2017

    Navient has not had my loan since April of 2013. I moved it to fed loans and now they are calling me, sending me bills. Even on my credit report it shows that it closed with them and open with Fed Loans so why or how can they call me and send me bills???

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    StaffLoan Process

    Reviewed March 1, 2017

    Navient Student Loan Service is the worst and the lowest of the low company to deal with student loan. It is equally sad that our government permit such hideous practice to destroy hard working people who in good faith have tried to live up to their commitment. Where is the faith and strength to continue paying, when your monthly payment is $327 and only $15 (under $50.00) is applied to the principal? How can one muscle up the strength and encouragement to make monthly payment when the total amount consolidated was $34,000.00 & one have been making monthly payment of $327 ($3924 per yr) x 4yrs = $1596.00 and your balance is $35,000 still!?

    Something is terribly wrong with this scam that our government & elected officials are not and failing to address. Oh & get this my obligation will be fulfilled in 2032 for the total of $64,000.00. Shouldn't one have & say in who should service their loan. N-nasty A-abuse of power V-void-empty I-inconsiderate E-egotistical N - nasty again T - trickery. Elected Officials step up and terminate this hideous scam of a company. It is destroying good people!

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    Customer ServiceRates

    Reviewed Feb. 27, 2017

    I took out approximately 60k and blinked and it turned into 100k. I was scammed into taking interest only payments because I couldn't afford to do anything else? They wanted 500-1300/mo. Who can pay this? I was on phone 3 hours trying to find solutions. Once again they tried to sell me forbearance. I don't qualify for any help whatsoever. I am not enough of a burden on society and now what? I'll be dead and in default. "Solutions for 'my' success". What a joke. Solutions for THEIR success, not yours or mine. I pray to God everyday that the lawsuit against this monster is successful and millions of people including myself get their day... THEIR payback for the pain, suffering and ruining of lives THEY have caused with their unethical practices.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2017

    My account is in forbearance for those months which they reported me late 90 days, Navient "claims" they cannot remove because the information is accurate. Attempted a goodwill request, speaking with customer service and advocate office and still they are "required" to report. Okay but aren't they also required to follow the statutes of the FTC and the FCR and the HEA and report current and updated information to the CB. Who regulates these companies. Very frustrating as there is no recourse - they review your file 15 minutes, determine it's accurate and RUIN your credit for 7 years! I hope this lawsuit against Navient puts the hurt to them by sticking them with fines for all the complaints they receive about cheating their customers.

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    StaffRates

    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2017

    The last large payment I made to Sallie Mae was to pay off one of 2 loans. I was adamant. I only wanted 1 balance left since they were charging me interest at 5.3%. I later filed chapter 13. 2-3 months later it was transferred to Navient. The Bankruptcy verifies my student loan balance remaining was $4,624.46. During that time I returned to school full time on grants and scholarships.

    After completing school and the chapter 13, I was sent a notice that I had two separate balances, both charging interest. When I contacted them about getting it corrected, they hesitated. I had my school send proof of times attended. I had my trustee send proof of amount due. They are stalling and I am preparing to dispute at the suggestion of my attorney. I am still getting statements, after asking them to correct it showing 2 different loans without the correct balance, even after faxing proof from my trustee, the information they have is incorrect. I want to be able to resolve this, but it seems as though they are delaying getting the corrections made.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2017

    I became a Navient customer because I had Sallie Mae Loans and I have federal loans that are managed by Navient. My federal loan payments were over $750 a month for 20 years, and I just couldn't pay that. After going back and forth with them, I was told that my best option would be IBR. So I filled out the paperwork and they sent me the amount I should pay. A few weeks ago, I was informed (not by Navient) that my loans will continue to increase in amount and I'll be responsible for interest after 20 years (which will easily be 75k+), so now, my loan is higher than it was, I can't pay what they say I should to cover the interest, and I was never informed of what going on the IBR plan would do. I basically threw money away to owe more. I'm devastated.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 13, 2017

    My normal payment date is the 15th of each month. For some reason this company took the payment on the 2/13. I called and told them it was the wrong day and they gladly changed it back. Good... Wrong... They scheduled another payment for 2/15. You would think common sense would kick in and say "Hey... He just paid one today, the next one should be due in a month." So I called and they said they can't stop it but call my bank to stop it. My bank charges $31 to stop a payment. I'm not paying for their screw up.

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    Reviewed Feb. 13, 2017

    NAVIENT - READ THIS! So NAVIENT says we owe 15 thousand dollars on a Loan from 2007 for my daughter... My daughter would have been 3 years old at that time. I'm not sure where they get their information from but I have tried to call them with no successful call back just a call back from a phony IRS agency saying she owes Taxes. OMG, Somehow I am starting to think these two are linked in a huge scam. THE IRS WILL NEVER CALL YOU. How do I get rid of this bogus bill?

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    StaffLoan Process

    Reviewed Feb. 12, 2017

    This loan company can't seem to do anything right or in its entirety the first time. In practically every instance that I need to send in filled-out forms or documentation, they tell me the wrong thing. Or I mail them what's required and it doesn't get processed in a timely way or maybe overlooked. So I get scary, demanding notices, as if I hadn't complied with them at all. Also, their reps don't always know how Navient forms are supposed to be filled out. So naturally they don't suffice, requiring me to do them all over again. I haven't dealt with them online. I don't know if that would help, but in doing so by mail, I have to buy postage stamp after postage stamp to send them what they need. And things get dragged out for weeks, months. Just unreal.

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    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2017

    If the name Navient was not associated with Students loans I would think this is a scam. Not that the government ever was involved in any scam. Why out of the Blue no Student Name or Loan Number comes out with a Bill and Tax form. Exchanging critical information or providing information on myself or anyone in my family could create room for a scam. So, unless the connection is made through the source of the Loan where it originated in the University or School, then I may think on providing more information.

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    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2017

    I am an ex-Sallie Mae student-loan customer whose loans have been transferred to Navient. Navient refuses to acknowledge me as their customer. I don't know if it's because I am a victim of education scam(s). I was notified by a staff member of the federal agency U.S. Dept of Education, via phone call, that I was a victim of education scam(s), after they received an alert of tampering of my student-loan file. The scam went so far as to try to block me from attending additional college courses under federal aid to obtain my master's.

    Next, they discovered that my employment salary history was actually from federal grants under the classification of Title 1 funding. It was then that my employer would no longer acknowledge as an education employee of theirs. Somehow, by error they said, my position was given to someone else. [Instead of me, their bonafide staff member, who had founded the position and created the curricula for the education program to be used at the given schooling district.]

    Needless to say -- let's forget about me receiving a teacher loan forgiveness of student-loan debt for years of service teaching in a bonafide Title 1 schooling district for the required length of time for loans to have been forgiven; because of no verification my education employer and former schools that I attended as a child of G&T. Now, whenever, I speak to Navient they refer to me to speak to Department of Education.

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    Reviewed Feb. 8, 2017

    I have never had a positive experience with Navient. Here is just the most recent issue: My husband and I recently realized we were both eligible for the RePAYE program, which would decrease our payments each month significantly from what we're paying on our other income based repayment plans. When he called Navient to ask about the status of our Dep. of Education student loan. gov submissions, the lady on the phone said Navient doesn't participate in the RePAYE program! This was confusing, since, they are directly servicing our loans from the government, and we applied to the program through studentloans.gov and they HAVE to participate in the program... but this woman insisted, three times, that Navient did not participate in that program, and they were happy to just recalculate our payments on the plan we were ALREADY ON.

    So we called studentloans.gov, who said that YES - NAVIENT DOES AND MUST participate in ALL of the Income Based Repayment Plans, and they had no idea why Navient would say that they didn't. WTF?! NAVIENT STRAIGHT LIED TO US...rudely, and interruptingly, might I add. We will now be calling them every day to ensure our plan-switches are processed and processed in a timely manner.

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    Reviewed Feb. 7, 2017

    I owe $108,000 on my student loan and I have contacted Navient on many occasions since 2011 to discuss financial hardship. Twice my loan was placed in forbearance, while interested accrued. Finally today I was approved for an income-based repayment plan that reduced my payments from $608 to $277. Prior to today I was always told that I did not qualify for any other repayment plan and that a forbearance was my only option. Doing the math based upon my current income I have overpaid on my student loans around $18,000 since 2011. This company is greedy and does not have the best interest of the borrower in mind. I have borrowed from my retirement twice in pay back this loan.

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    Reviewed Feb. 4, 2017

    Class action lawsuit was filed if you want to get onboard. They are sending me bills and already sold my debt to a third party company within two weeks. I had no idea if it was a scam because it seemed shady. Looks like it is a scam but in a gray area. Contacted me only in E-mail and now the new company is contacting me.

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    Reviewed Feb. 3, 2017

    I signed up to received income based repayment plan. I received a letter indicating they got my application. Now I just received the new invoice, instead of $200 a month as agreed on. I am being billed $700 a month. I have worked on this loan many times since 2009 to get the income based repayment plan, I recognize I will be paying for the rest of my life, however I do not have $700 a month. I can't get anyone to help me.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2017

    I went on their website to pay in full the remaining balance on my son's student loans. There were 2 consolidation loans listed, one with a balance of $3900, and the second of $1200. I clicked to make a payment on the loan listed as, 1-01, and made the payment. I then tried to go back and make what I thought was the final payment on the loan listed as, 1-02. The system showed no balance and would let me make another payment. I called today, spoke with "John" (ha-ha), ID #**, and asked why I couldn't get the payment to come up for the other a loan. After an almost 40 minute call, I found that the payment I made 2 days ago was SPREAD OUT between the 2 loans and both still have balances due. I thought at least #1 would have been wiped out but NO.

    Their website is deceiving and I feel sorry for students who are trying to get their loans paid down. I was paying almost double the required minimum but $5200 was years away from being paid off. I feel Navient's website is deliberately misleading account holders and they should be made to clean it up and make it more transparent to users. Their dealings are almost fraudulent. It should be noted that I was very hard on the service representative, and it isn't his fault, but he's forced to represent a bad manager.

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    Reviewed Jan. 27, 2017

    I've been paying loans that were formerly under Sallie Mae since 1997. I can't put into words how much of a boat anchor they've been on my life. Yes, I finished my degrees. Yes I'm working, but have had to go through periods of unemployment and underemployment, and ended up taking the forbearances--where they stop payments but keep adding interest. I honestly believe they want you to do that as it keeps stretching out your payments. What had been $256 a month is now $440, and what should have been done literally next month now is looking to go on to 2023.

    What prompts me to write is I took one last forbearance over the summer. In August I started paying again but my payment due dates were a month out. I was paying in August when it said the bill was due in late September. I assumed I'd started paying too early and in October waited and paid my bill November 1st--it wasn't due until the 22nd and I have the statements to back this up.

    Things went normally until today, when I got an e-mail from them saying I was past due on my account, and when I checked it said I owed double my monthly payment. I sent e-mails and got no replies, and called; after a half hour I got through to a woman with a heavy Filipino accent who couldn't pronounce my name, and kept saying "You missed your October payment." I literally had to shout to get her to stop repeating that, and she wouldn't listen when I told her I had no payment due. I hung up after another ten minutes of trying to reach a supervisor.

    I dug through Navient's website. You actually have to follow a link to the "old" Sallie Mae website to get your statements. I checked copies and everything said I wasn't behind on payments--nothing due. I finally found a "letter" which I don't recall getting but never mind, on January 14th that said "We'd found your payment date was advanced by one month in error. We fixed it. Your account is in good standing."

    Ah-ha, but honestly it reads like they screwed up, and are socking me with an extra payment with no notice they were assessing it, and honestly they could have advanced my ending payment by a month rather than come at me like I was a deadbeat. So I have no case number, no person to contact, no reference, just a Filipina woman I chewed out on the phone and two replies to e-mails that said "Thanks for contacting us." It makes me wonder how legal this is. I was paying on the terms stated, and what recourse I have, since they want to limit you to a fairly useless website. And what's to stop them from deciding later on I didn't pay enough after a previous deferment and bam--more money? Avoid if you haven't taken out loans. Get out if you can.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2017

    Unable to voluntarily increase monthly amount paid without permanently restructuring loan. Ridiculous. This company has always been difficult to deal with and had poor customer service. I never mind customer service agents speaking English as a second language. I do mind all customer service being outsourced and NO common sense.

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    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2017

    Statement is dated Jan 5. Post mark shows a date later than 1/10. They apply a late fee on 1/17. From postmark to late fee, they only provide 3 business days to pay before charging a late fee. This is an unfair set of payment terms. Student loan companies should allow people a fair amount to pay a bill, like 30 days or some other reasonable number of days. This happens every month. They charge $10 per month in late fees. They have been doing this to me for over a year.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 20, 2017

    I have been requesting an income based repayment plan since 2015. Every time I call to request they put my loan in forbearance for two months, tell me to call back if the paperwork was not received. End of two months I call back this cycle starts over. In the meantime they are reporting my loan as delinquent!!! They are the only thing on my credit report so I need to pay a car, I would like to buy a house but I can't thanks to them!!! They are stealing my American Dream!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 20, 2017

    I have defaulted a bunch of times on my loans because 500.00 a month for an Associate degree and try to have a house, etc. is crazy. I can't afford my monthly payments, and I have tried to get help lowering them but all they will do is put me in a forbearance or lower my payments for a year, which of course does not help, the amount I own on my school loan is crazy. I barely see a decrease on my loans since I graduated.

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    Reviewed Jan. 20, 2017

    I have been paying my student loans for years. I pay almost double what I'm supposed to but my balance barely goes down. On some of my loans my payments actually went up even though I pay way more than I'm supposed to. I can't get an answer as to why, if I pay an extra $10 over what's due, my balance only goes down by $3. I think Navient needs to have a class action lawsuit filed for mismanaging loans.

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    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2017

    I graduated college in 2007. My loans through Sallie Mae were transferred to Navient. I am on autopay for as long as I can remember. My payments change and are allocated any which way to want to. It is not their decision on how my money should be allocated. I also have no way of controlling this feature online. You can only make additional payments. They also lowered my monthly payments without my consent after one of 3 loans was paid off. I would have kept my monthly payments the same applying more money to the principal of the 2 remaining.

    I cannot get anyone on the phone. Time and time again. I keep hoping their website changes and it doesn't. I am sick to think how much money has been misallocated to their liking to keep me as a customer longer. I am 33 and trying to have this paid. They have no right to change amounts I agreed years ago to lengthen my time of payoff and keep me longer. I'm at a loss and completely infuriated by this.

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    Reviewed Jan. 17, 2017

    Apparently, it is my fault that Navient and my university have a failure to communicate! I have received multiple phone calls in the last few days, many outside business hours and over holidays, requiring me to call. I call, and their voicemail refuses to connect me to a human or informs me it is after hours! Apparently, the computer is working, and no one is working. I can't express my frustration and my paying the price for their stupidity!

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    Reviewed Jan. 16, 2017

    These people contact both my co-signer and myself several times per hour 24/7. We've asked them to limit the calls which they do not. The calls come from all across the states. Even though I make payments they continue to call beginning at 8:00 a.m. (including weekends) until after 8:00 p.m. (including weekends).

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    Reviewed Jan. 16, 2017

    I have been on hold for 3 hours now. The auto prompt said it would be in excess of 30 minutes. They did not lie. This auto answering system is so frustrating, it's nothing more than a stalling system. Avoid Navient if at all possible.

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    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2017

    Took out a private student loan in 1993 that has since been sold to Sallie Mae and now is Navient. I have been harassed with endless calls for months. I have sent two "cease and desist" letters, both sent via certified mail, and both with signature requested. I am still getting calls constantly and now Navient has begun to contact friends and family. I am so tired of the harassment. Never has Navient been able to provide a copy of the original promissory note. Their collection practices violate the law and I am tired of it.

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    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2017

    I open my email this morning to find that I am "late" on my payment. I am not quite sure how this could be as I pay my bill early every time. When my payments were started the first payment was due 2/1 and I made that payment in January. Fast Forward to now and I am being told that they did not receive my January payment... How can this be when you clearly received a payment in December for my loans.

    Something is very wrong with this company. They are lacking transparency when it comes to how payments are applied. There is nowhere where you can see any balance going down and if you ask for a statement showing this for some reason no one understands what you are asking for. They advise you to look at your payment history which only shows your payment being received not how it is applied or that your balance has gone down. I'm so over this company and their complete disregard for doing business in a reputable manner. It makes me wish I would have never gone to school.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2016

    This company purchased my student loan which was being paid efficiently and regularly paid via the ACS website. Then when it went to Navient they split the loan into two separate loans which are impossible to pay online with one payment. When you call Navient their automated system takes roughly 15 minutes of begging to be connected to a human to get past because it cannot help me within the system. Actually it disconnected me once because it "couldn't understand me" and I had to start over. With today's technology, these things should be easy. It has worked so simply and easy since 2004 with ACS. Now it's a source of contention and anxiety just to pay a bill every month. Unacceptable.

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    Reviewed Dec. 22, 2016

    I cannot afford my private student loans payments. They want me to pay $264 a month. My area was hit by a hurricane a few months ago so my loans were put on a deferment. I was told that when I came off the deferment that I could do a rate reduction payment. The deferment is over and they told me that there is nothing they can do to lower the payment. I have never worked with a business that has no heart. I was on the rate reduction for 2.5 years a few years back and paid it every month. Now all the 12.25 interest that has accrued it is back to where the original was. My life is totally over with this business not willing to work with me. I hope that others will read all the negative reviews and to get a student loan elsewhere.

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2016

    Navient has terrible customer service. I make weekly payments. Sometimes I pay on it more than once a week. I pay what I can. I made a payment Dec 15th and the money was deducted out of my acct Dec 15th but did not show payment made on my acct with Navient so I emailed customer service Dec 15th and you know what the response was I got back on Dec 16th? “We saw you have not made a payment since Nov 25th. Please send copy of check or the EFT information from bank.” I looked at my Navient acct Dec 16th. There is the payment I made on Dec 15th. I have made 6 payments since Nov 25th and those payments show on my acct?? So what was this rep looking at when she responded to my email? That tells you these reps are not trained or they don't care! I will not call them because they are rude and say they will help you in emails and voicemails but that is not the case. They just want to make your life miserable and ruin your credit.

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2016

    Since graduating college, I have since defaulted on my student loans due to a variety of reasons. A couple years ago, I enrolled in the rehabilitation program to remedy the situation and get my credit in check and stop the annoying collection calls. Upon completing the loan rehab my loans were automatically transferred over to Navient through the Department of Education. I hadn't experienced any real problems until recently.

    I made a payment through their website and checked the balance a couple days later when it processed. Looked like to me that my full $150 didn't go through. I emailed and got a response that actually made sense. My loans were accruing interest each day, so by the time the payment is processed, the overall balance will only go down the $150 minus the daily interest. Ok, so I calculated that interest and figured out that my loans accrue just over 19 cents each day. Fine.

    After this I began to check and write down my balance almost daily. That's when I noticed something fishy going on. For the most part, the balance would rise about 19 cents per day as expected, but just earlier this week I noticed a jump of about $2.15 over the course of two days! That would mean my interest would now a dollar a day!! That's about $30/month and $365/year! With no notice and no logical reason.

    I contacted customer service with a strongly worded email and got a notification two days later that they had responded. I checked my account, no response anywhere in my inbox. So I checked my balance and of course now my balance reflected the original 19cents/day interest rate. They fixed it, got rid of the communication and just went on like nothing happened. Very shady. KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR BALANCES, FOLKS!!! I try to check mine daily and do the math to make sure it's in line. Currently looking for other options to pay down the debt.

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2016

    A while ago I took out some "Signature Loans" from Sallie Mae to supplement the Stafford Loans I got when I was starting a PhD a number of years ago (long since aborted). Total was around US$20,000. Well I had been paying on them for many years as I wasn't making that much as a university teacher in South Korea. Well long story short, came back to the states a couple of years ago and due to a number of reasons I had to file for bankruptcy this year and took a teaching job here in China. Well according to the law, these types of loans are supposed to be discharged in bankruptcy cases, however the clowns intentionally labeled them as "student loans" which they say can not be discharged in bankruptcy cases.

    So now they are hassling me over here in China along with hassling my family back in the states. I keep telling them these were Signature Loans (heck on my account information page on their website it even says these loans were signature loans and when it comes to contact them it's at a different number than their regular student loans, in fact the account number is one of a private loan). I'm now having to go back to my attorney back in the states and get the case reopened because of this which will likely cost me more money in attorney fees. These are lying cheating *bleeps* who will stop at nothing to shaft you.

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    Reviewed Dec. 9, 2016

    In my senior year of college I took out a private loan through Sallie Mae to help cover what federal loans wouldn't. I had to have a co-signer who was my uncle (never was really close to him but he was willing to help me out). I graduated; yay, and after 6mos the payments started to become due. The amount was too high so I called Sallie Mae, explained the issue and they were able to lower my payments for almost 2 yrs. During that timeframe I lost my job; but was still making my payments, and my loan was transferred to a company called Navient. When the payment plan was getting close to coming to an end I received a letter saying to call in and restart the program.

    By this point I'd found another job; however, not making even a fraction of what I was making before. I explained the situation to Navient and offered to pay a lower amount just for one year while I paid off some credit cards and I would be able to pay more than what the minimum payment was. They told me "no" because according to them I had the ability to pay the minimum amount or my co-signer could help. My co-signer called in and stated he wouldn't be able to help and was told there was nothing they could do because my balance was lower enough where if I made the minimum payment: $396, I could pay the $12,000 balance off in 3 yrs. At the time I was only making $23,000 a yr, I have a child that I provide for, household bills and additional student loans that I was and am paying. I was able to borrow the money for a couple of months but it got to the point where that ran out. So the loan went into to collections.

    At this point I'm receiving 2-3 letter a month saying "call us. We're here to help. We can discuss payment options that will help." I called in, explained the situation; however, was told at every avenue there was nothing they could do. On top of the letters, I'm getting emails and phone calls all saying "give us a call to discuss payment options that can help." I called again at the end of October, finally got a person who was willing to help. I offered to pay $150 a month until February or March of next year until I was able to pay my credit cards off and apply all my payments to them. She said "I find a plan where you pay $125 a month and we set it up on automatic deduction". They deducted the first payment on the 17th of November. Everything was good until 2 weeks ago I received a letter in the mail saying they denied my payment because the co-signer has the ability to help and they didn't receive the required documentation from him.

    How does that work? He can help but you haven't gotten his paperwork showing that he actually can. By this time my uncle isn't answering my calls or his sisters. I called Navient again and explained I'm trying but I'm not getting assistance from either side. The lady stated she understood and would re-submit the plan for review and at the same time try contacting my co-signer. A week later I get a call from my "Account Manager" saying they denied my plan because my co-signer wasn't responding. She stated she would try reaching out to him again by mail and telephone and then the plan would be submitted for review again. Well I didn't hear anything from Navient for about a week. Last night I get a phone call and they are telling me the exact same thing: "what have you guys been doing for the past week?"

    At what point do you realize this person is trying and we should try to meet her halfway. Nothing. This person is telling me that they are going to continue to reach out to the co-signer and once they have met their due diligence submit the account to the managers to have it approved because "they don't want the loan to go into default. They are trying to avoid that. There's a light at the end of this tunnel". How long is this tunnel because this has been going on for a year now and I don't see a light. Well I get a call today from my account manager saying they have canceled any options for re-payment and if I don't pay $200 and some change by January 1st my loan will be in default. They are refusing to negotiate anything to get this loan out of default despite my efforts; but the account is still set up on automatic deduction to deduct $125 on the 17th of this month.

    How do you cancel my payment plan but still want to take a payment out of my account. This is ridiculous. I'm trying. All Im asking for is a couple of months where you get a payment. Maybe not what you're asking for, but something and it's just "no". I regret ever going back and finishing school because I wouldn't have to deal with this. Sure I wouldn't have a career. Social Work $28,000 a year just started in July (no bonuses, no guaranteed raises, they haven't had a raise in over 5 yrs), that I love. I'm basically stuck because my uncle isn't answering phone calls and Navient isn't willing to help. I wish something would be done about this company because their business practices aren't right.

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2016

    I got a loan out for about 10,000.00 through Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae was sued in a class action suit so they conveniently changed their name to Navient. Sallie Mae and Navient are one and the same. I have been paying on these loans for decades and the balance never seems to go down; however, my monthly payment continues to go up. My monthly payment used to be $165.00 now it is $386.00. Then suddenly I receive an email from Navient saying "new loan information". I go to the email and log in to see what is going on and suddenly Navient has a new loan from 2002 for Webster University. I never attended Webster University in 2002.

    I couldn't find any paperwork on the site when I went to my account. If there is no paperwork with my legitimate signature then this would be fraud either by Webster or by Navient. I plan on getting a lawyer and suing Navient because I have not signed any loans with Navient for any money for education with Webster University so if they have anything with my signature on it then they forged it. BTW... you can file bankruptcy against school loans if you are unable to pay them. You have to find a lawyer willing to file it as it requires additional paperwork for educational loans. I'm seriously considering it.

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    Reviewed Dec. 1, 2016

    I have been trying for 7 months to secure a discharge of my sons student loan and reimbursement for payments made since his passing. I have completely fulfilled all of Navients requests for documentation... Including certified mailings of certified death certificates. Yet every time I contact them for an update, representatives (located in philippines) tell me they never received, or another form is needed or they'll contact me via email with their findings!!! It's a constant run around!!! NO MORE! They are simply trying to avoid the loan discharge and reimbursement. Which is totally against the law. Death of a student is a legal and legitimate cause... as stated on the US Department of Education website. I will no longer call them and will be turning this over to my attorney. BEWARE, ANYONE CONSIDERING USING NAVIENT FOR A SCHOOL LOAN. They can not be trusted.

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    Reviewed Nov. 28, 2016

    Per Navient letter (code **) received at my physical home location on 11/22/2016 I am still “seriously late” and Navient states, “I am in jeopardy of DEFAULT with signature loans 1841, 1858 and 1866.” Keep in mind the letter is dated for 11/11/2016. I didn’t get this letter until 11/22/2016. The letter also stated, “Navient has made several attempts to resolve my situation.” It also stated, “that by paying a min. of 42.53 by 11/29/2016 I can delay loan default and allow additional time to work towards a more long-term solution.”

    I, Tina **, have been in contact by phone, online and fax with Navient several times this past year. My husband and I paid on the Signature Loans 1841, 1858 and 1866 (45.00) from PNC bank account online again on 11/23/2016 at 11:55 AM. Navient’s Confirmation number is **. Today, 11/27/2016 I reviewed an email stating, "Navient wants me to pay them now." 1841 in the amount of $254.81. 1866 in the amount of $196.18. 1858 in the amount of $252.44.

    Isn’t this false communications on Navient’s part? Deceptive? How am I going to prevent DEFAULT when I have been unemployed since January 2012? My husband is unemployed and only gets 360.00 net weekly. Our mortgage is 866.00 a month and we only get a 43.00 per month food allowance. I have 18 years of working experience and my husband has 23 years of working experience. I am 48 and he is 53. I am writing to file a complaint against Navient for deceptive practices. I have been making payments, communications and efforts.

    Updated on 01/30/2017: I am reaching out to you for assistance, because of the false information presented about my account this morning again on 1/30/2017 from 1-856-242-2511 at 9:25am. NAVIENT'S VOICE MAIL TO STUDENT ON 1/30/2017- The voice mail message by Navient representative “Jeremy” stated, after 2 days Navient will “TERMINATE” my file and no longer work with me. Navient also stated, "We have tried to reach out to you for months and you are not responding (This is false information). We are trying to assist you." I WAS RESPONSIVE AGAIN and I made another phone call back to Navient on 1/30/2017 at 1-866-517-3093 extension ** from 9:50am to 10:02am. I spoke to a different Navient representative and her name was Connie **.

    Now, Navient is stating something different about my account than what was stated from the 1/17/2017 phone call with Navient representative Jeremy. Now, Navient is stating I never made a single payment to any of my three private loans in November 2016 and December 2016. Needless to say, I made many attempts to confirm my payments with Connie. However, Connie stated, "According to our records, you didn’t and you missed these two months all together."

    Navient’s contradictive records per their own phone calls from 1/17/2017 and 1/30/2017. 1/17/2017 - Navient stated that in December, I am “1” whole billing cycle behind. Vs. 1/30/2017 – Navient stated that I completely missed payments all together for my private loans for both the months of November 2016 and December 2016.

    Past "Responsive Communications to Navient"- Call to Navient on 1/17/2017 around 8:30pm to 1-866-517-3093, ext. ** from Mike ** and Tina ** from phone number **. Certified Letter to Navient on 1/25/2017 with UPS ** to provide payment confirmation and communications in regards to my account concerns. Navient received communications from UPS ** on January 28, 2017, 11:00 am, but called again by Navient on 1/30/2017 stating I have not responded in months.

    To Consumer Affairs - Requested Resolution. Why are Navient’s call center records different than my web history account? Why does Navient continue to state that my husband and I haven’t been responsive for months? Why am I missing credits for payments taken out of my very own bank account? Why isn’t Navient honoring their very own letters to not default a student’s loan with the agreed upon payment amount (SET BY NAVIENT) with a household of two unemployed adult professionals? Why is Navient not honoring struggling students options to prevent default? Why is Navient trying to “Just Default My Loans” and not work with me and listen? They won’t listen to me about proof of payment and correspondences. The account details are ** Private (only) Signature Loans **. I have federal loans but this pertains to only the three private loans.

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    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2016

    I am a frustrated 20 year old college student and before I go any further, let me add that I am still enrolled and not even close to graduating yet. I am in more debt I could ever pay off in my lifetime and the next. I graduated high school in 2014 and a few months later, I enrolled in a trade college (not my ideal school but due to certain circumstances, I had no other choice). By the time the first quarter was coming to a close, I was already wanting to call it quits for how piss poorly the institution was run. I only took three classes and paid for my own textbooks with graduation money and my scholarships totaling $12,000 should have covered them so there was no need for two student loans to be taken out or even the Pell Grant to be touched (at least I thought).

    By the time I was supposed to sign up for second quarter classes, I was in a car accident and was unfortunately able to continue but I saw it as my way out and immediately withdrew before financial aid could take any more money. Fast forward six months later, I've healed fairly good but I was still in no condition to be sitting in classrooms and doing clinicals so I enrolled in an online program for pharmacy technician and it was the worst decision ever! I only took a total of two classes and since the program totaled $1,500 for all nine months and they gave me three disbursements checks for each semester totaling $3,000, you would think student loans wouldn't even be a factor, if barely touched at all. So what does this have to do with anything? Well, bring it to present day.

    I've left both of those institutions and enrolled in my dream one to pursue my dream career of nursing and I'm set to start in January. After nearly a year of being out of college and working two jobs, I think nothing of it. Suddenly, around September of this year, I get a phone call from my grandmother saying that she has received a letter from Navient saying that they have been trying to get in contact with me regarding student loan debt. First off, how they got her information is BEYOND me. Along with my father's when the only person reported on my FASFA was my mother. She hasn't gotten a letter yet. This completely blew my mind because at this point, I've never heard of this company or what they do. I was getting phone calls at work, all times of the day. Every time I go to my mail box, there's four plus letters from them saying the same things.

    What I saw next, nearly sent me into cardiac arrest. I check my e-mail and it tells me to log-in to this site. After days of trying, I finally get in and I see that I owe a WHOPPING $12,842.28 to them for four student loans. I knew immediately something was wrong because I was always informed I couldn't have payments six months until I after I graduated. So I stayed on the phone for hours trying to get a hold of someone and when I finally did, I got terrible customer service and nonchalant attitudes. No one could explain to me where my debt came from or how it was so much. Every month, it increases and I haven't even enrolled in classes because I am terrified of compiling more on thus my dreams have been put on hold. My credit score has dropped immensely after working so hard to build it up.

    I can't tell you how many times I have cried myself to sleep because I can't get my life on track due to something out of my control, knowing I couldn't pay it off even if I wanted to. I haven't begun payments because I know I am contractually obligated to keep doing so once I do and I don't have nearly enough income. What still baffles me is how A) Sallie Mae has just vanished and been replaced with this racket and B) The debt is constantly increasing and affecting my credit terribly.

    After reading these reviews, I don't feel so bad and it really sucks to know that so many people are affected by these legal loan sharks harassing hard working people. I'm praying that by contacting a lawyer, they can tell me what actions I need to take. I'm hoping that by some small miracle, I don't have to pay a dime. My advice to anyone getting content from them is DO NOT make a single payment until you speak to a lawyer because once you take payments, it's a never ending cycle, even if you think you've paid it off entirely.

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    Reviewed Nov. 16, 2016

    My student loans are held with Navient. I have opted of the Income-Based Repayment plan as I work for a non-profit and may be eligible to have my loans forgiven after 120 payments. Navient gave me a monthly payment amount based on my application for the Income-Based Repayment plan and I have been making such payments timely. So as I do from time to time I looked at my credit report on Credit Karma and noticed that my Navient loan balance had increased. I immediately went to the Navient site and logged into my account however I couldn't locate how the change in my account balance was calculated. I couldn't even find the previous month's balance. When I called Navient it was explained to me that the monthly payment that I was given did not cover the monthly interest that was being accrued therefore the difference was being added to my loan balance each month.

    Here is my first problem with this explanation. Nowhere on any document that I signed or anything that I read about any of the various plans on how to lower your monthly payment does it explain that these plans will adversely affect your personal credit as the loan balance could increase each month if you do not at least cover the monthly accrued interest. My second problem is just making this payment is tough, very tough, and now my credit is being hurt. This is the epitome of living in a rat wheel. The whole student loan industry is a RACKET!

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    Reviewed Nov. 7, 2016

    Sallie Mae, now Navient, has irreparably damaged my credit and finances. After graduating from college and not being able to find a job for close to a year, they refused to work with me to refinance my loans, despite my various attempts to work out a payment plan with them. Once employed, I resumed my payments, but they were too high as I am only 23 and an entry level employee. Again I contacted them only to be given the runaround, and when I finally spoke to someone of stature, they told me that the only way to refinance my loans was to default on them, which I did. Once I defaulted, I made another call to Sallie Mae and was able to get my payments down to $565.64. Fine. But upon recent inspection on my part, I found out that they've been taking more than the agreed upon amount totaling to $640.01. I'm now unemployed again, due to health reasons, and am virtually stuck.

    I have no other money in the bank and am pursuing options in which to sue for at the very least, breach of contract. Additionally, when I first restructured my loans, they proceeded to ding my credit score so that it's decimated beyond repair because the payments that I was making were "late." There's no way they could have been late because they were scheduled to be taken out of my account on the 5th of each month as previously agreed upon. If their system is messed up, then why am I being punished for it? They've also harassed my relatives, none of whose information I gave out when applying for my loans, so they must have been mining data to figure out who to call.

    Every time that I've tried to call them and straighten this out, I get the runaround and them telling me that my only option is to defer my payments, but to do so I have to pay an additional $150. What??? The people they've hired to run their "business" are completely unprofessional, incompetent, and inept; this organization should be run out of business for the plain thievery that they are allowed to inflict on American citizens. I am no longer interested in continuing to work with Sallie Mae/Navient now that they are literally stealing my money.

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    Reviewed Nov. 4, 2016

    I have fully paid my Sallie Mae student loans back in 2005 and closed out my loan account with Sallie Mae. Suddenly in 2013 I start receiving harassing phone calls at my work phishing for my social security information and saying I owe them money. I get letters to my work saying I owe them money. I call to confirm Sallie Mae and my account is closed. How did Navient get my information if my loan is closed? Not one person has told me a balance value and this place is a scam. Very frustrating.

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    Reviewed Nov. 4, 2016

    This is my first review for a company. I have never experienced such terrible customer service in my entire life. I originally took private loans out through Sallie Mae for college. I paid these loans while they were in deferment. Each time I called to work with them about my payments and payment options I got a different response. One representative told me that I was a year and a half ahead and no payments were due. Another representative said that my payments were another amount. When I requested different payment options, he told me there was nothing they could do. These high payments affect my ability to buy a home, and I have been unsuccessful in refinancing even with a 670 credit score. I really hope someone can do something about this company. I just feel like they are leaving everyone without options.

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    Reviewed Nov. 1, 2016

    Several months ago I was contacted by a company to reduce my student loans. I was approved by the company but something about the company made me uneasy and I was reluctant to sign the paperwork until I spoke with Navient. I spoke with an individual at Navient and went through the phone application process and was told I qualified for the very same program to reduce my loan payment. I was told that I can go online to complete the paperwork and that the documentation was being sent to me by hard copy in the mail. I never received the hard copy and have been trying to contact Navient for months.

    When I do reach Navient I get so far into the conversation and the calls are disconnected. I am getting nowhere with getting this paperwork and now am at the point where they are looking for the full payment to resume when I qualified for the program for my payments to be reduced. Help!!! I do not want my credit to suffer as a result of Navient not following through and providing legitimate assistance.

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    Reviewed Oct. 26, 2016

    So disappointed in Navient! Their customer service is a big ZERO. You can't get ahold of anyone - they don't have any way to communicate with them, thus they get away with what they just did! Basically Navient decided to NOT send out payment coupons for the loans they have with people. In doing this they are making people be late (because in my case, I thought we had paid the loan off). You would think the same thing... No stub to pay from = no more payments. (NOTE: since 2003 I have been getting stubs from them.) So, to my SHOCKING surprise, the payment is now 2 months late, they have hit the credit report and added finance/late fees. After MANY MANY MANY attempts to get ahold of someone, I finally figured out how to log into their HORRIBLE website and say I am super late.

    Well, they WILL NOT Waive the late fees - even though it's completely their fault for not sending a simple note informing me that no more payment stubs will be mailed EVER! Anyways, I paid off the entire load (including the ripoff of late fees and thankfully WILL NEVER communicate with them ever again. DO NOT USE THEM! They will not take care of you and will do everything to make it hard to make your payment. ROTTEN COMPANY! They need to be sold and close. Horrible management! I feel bad for all the students that will be stuck with this horrible & rotten company! The Government should not work with them and not allow them to deal with our bright youth!

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    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2016

    I have paid my student loans religiously for 10 years. I recently started looking at the actual allocation and billing summary. Not only do they frequently apply payments to lower interest rate loans when I've requested and document them to go to higher interest rate loans, but payments "disappear", problems are not resolved in a timely fashion and I have spent every free minute the past several months try to fix "computer glitches" that result in more money in their pockets. They are unethical and borderline thieves. I am actively looking to take my business elsewhere, even if it means a higher interest rate loan.

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    Reviewed Oct. 21, 2016

    I am incredibly frustrated and disappointed with the customer service at Navient. I never write reviews, but I felt in this case, it is warranted. Halfway through my school year in 2014 in California, my loan servicing company switched from Sallie Mae to Navient without my consent (I feel as if we should have a say in this?). Since I had already accrued 40K of loans in one year in the states, my Swiss husband and I decided to finish the rest of my master's degree in Switzerland, since it is only 867.00 a semester (amazing, right? That's how it should be...).

    However, I have sent in a deferment request MULTIPLE times and receive a robotic response back, either by email or phone. 'You must submit a valid school code.' Um, OK. Switzerland doesn't have a valid school code because it is an INTERNATIONAL school. My counselor stated this in the letter he sent (twice, in two different letters) to their office. Suddenly, they've changed my account status and now it reads that I owe 460 dollars due in three weeks.

    I am still in school, and without a job. We can barely afford food, let alone another 460 dollar bill! I have asked my counselor for two personalized letters to prove that I attend the university and yet I am sure Navient NEVER reads the full letter. All I get back are robotic responses, even though we have fulfilled the criteria listed on the deferment form. I call them and they say they will 'send in an inquiry,' but that never resolves anything either. The customer service department never seems to know what the heck is going on, either, and this frightens me, as I am sure my 40K loan will take a very long time to pay off and I will have to deal with the company for many years to come.

    For goodness' sake, Navient needs to get a handle on their business. I find it mind-boggling that a company handling such large sums of money conducts itself with such blind recklessness. It is really a shame that we are thrown under Navient's rule without a say, and I feel for all of the comments below me, as many are in much dire situations than I am. I would have been in much better shape acquiring a loan from a private lender from my existing bank. I regret not researching other options when I decided to take out loans in the first place. I hope for all of us that Navient wakes up and listens to its customers, whether it be email, phone, or mail. These are our lives. We are incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to go to school and we thank you for that, but please, please, wake up and pay attention.

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    Reviewed Oct. 21, 2016

    My husband is paying his student loans using the employment based deferral plan. He was doing a regular payment of $25 and had authorized Navient to make automatic withdrawals for that amount. However since August 2016 the company took out unauthorized payments amounting to $500, $250, $500 and again $250 over a two month period. All complaints have fallen to deaf ears. They have the ** customer service. My husband has filed a small claims with the district court. You can also request a relief from Court costs. He followed this with a complaint on the consumer finance website under the Student Loan section. Here is the link http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/. I encourage people on this website to follow suit. You can't let companies like this get away with this **. Please do your part towards getting justice. Thanks.

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    Reviewed Oct. 19, 2016

    I have gone back to school later in life and I am still working towards my goals to achieve a higher pay level in my work. I was told because of my current age, I am in high debt collection. Navient is calling persons not on my loan for collection. Navient is threatening me. Navient is calling me multiple times daily. Navient is not recognizing I have full time status for college and that I am under Federal allowable time to be in college for full time status. I believe in our Federal System and I believe this Navient collection system is error and will not work with the working population to be able to satisfy college achievements, working achievements, and responsibilities by the way Navient ignores the Federal Laws they represent.

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    Reviewed Oct. 19, 2016

    This place is unreal. They are nothing but crooks and thieves and it is embarrassing to be hooked by them. I woke up one day and Sallie Mae was gone and Navient had appeared. Instead of having my information automatically switched over, I had to re-enter it. I messed up on my bank account information and put one number wrong on the account #. Any normal, well run business will obviously not run my bank number because it's incorrect. I should have gotten an error message. Instead, they accepted the bank information and for three months I could not figure out why my payments weren't going through.

    After those three months I called and they said I was locked out of my account. I said ok, well this is obviously just an error in my bank information, considering I haven't missed a payment in 10 years how about we just clear the whole thing up and take away any fees or penalties. Nope. They kept me locked out except for phone access for six months and did not rescind or change any penalties.

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    Reviewed Oct. 18, 2016

    I have NEVER in my life had problems with my student loans until Navient took over my Sallie Mae loans. I have been trying, unsuccessfully, since last February to get an IBR due to unemployment. My loan came out of forbearance in Feb., and I filled out all of the papers for the IBR and mailed them in. I did not hear anything for 2 months and figured all was well. In May, I received my first bill. I called them right away, asked them why I did not get the IBR. Navient said they NEVER received it. I faxed the papers this time. 6 TIMES!! They state they never received it. I end up faxing the paperwork while I have a supervisor on the phone with me. They finally receive it. She tells me that I left off the last page of my tax forms. I send it again!! She says they received everything and the IBR is processing.

    2 weeks later I get a call from them. New customer rep says the form I printed out (from their website) was outdated and needed to be the newest edition from last 6 months. How can the paperwork be outdated if I got it from their website? So now they want me to cross out old date and re-date paperwork and refax. So I did that. I got the customer service rep's # and his name. He tells me everything is processing and I will be getting an answer soon. Now they are calling me three times a day to ask me how they can help me with my loans since I'm late with my first payment. Say what?

    I ask them if they read the notes on my account so that we are all on the same page and rep says they keep no notes on account! WTH?? How is it possible that they are still in business? I'd rather marry Satan than deal with this place any longer. I kid you not dealing with this place is making me rage. The reps barely speak English as well. So basically Navient scams people, lies to you, gives you the runaround, doesn't keep records of ANY KIND, and harasses you all day, every day. And yet the government does nothing. No one is investigating this sham operation? Of course not.

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    Reviewed Oct. 17, 2016

    I have over half a dozen different student loans. Up until recently, four of them were with Navient. However, two of my loans were recently transferred from another lender (National Education). I had applied for renewal of my Income-Based-Repayment to my first lender shortly before my loans were transferred. Navient never contacted me about the IBR application, and instead took money out of my bank account at an unadjusted rate, resulting in nearly $400 of extra payment each month for which I had not budgeted.

    When I called Navient to ask what had happened, they claimed to have never received the IBR application from the first lender. They told me half of my loans from the first lender were in IBR, but the other half were not anymore, and I would need to reapply directly to them. So I did. When I called back to expedite the application (as I had been told to do), I was told by a different representative that in fact *none* of my loans from the previous lender had been placed in IBR, whereas they had previously told me half of them were.

    Realizing that these people didn't know which end was up, I called National Education to inquire about the original IBR application. After all, Navient claimed National Education had never sent it to them. SOMEBODY owes me nearly $800 due to this mess, and I wanted to know who. National Education assured me that the IBR application had been electronically transferred to Navient with all the rest of my loan paperwork. Which means that Navient either lost or deliberately misplaced my IBR application, thereby charging me an extra $400 in September and AGAIN in October.

    When I finally received notification over the weekend that everything had been correctly processed into IBR, they also notified me that my request to withdraw from AutoPay had been processed. Except I never requested to withdraw from AutoPay. Staying in that program reduces my interest rate - why would I leave? When I called them to ask what the heck had happened, I was told they had taken me out so that my old Navient plus new Navient (old National Education) loans would not all process at the same time. Seriously?! Ask me first, you jerks! Don't presume you know what's best for me and then try to claim I asked for it afterwards!

    I'm fortunate. I have a decently well-paying job, as does my spouse. We had enough money in savings that being robbed of nearly $400 in Sept. and again in October didn't cause us to miss a mortgage payment or a car payment. But if Navient is doing this routinely, they could cause people to lose their cars, or their homes. This is NOT acceptable and given the shady stories the reps are giving me over the phone, I am convinced they did this on purpose. I have had other loans transferred to other lenders, and nobody else has screwed up my IBR like this. I'm *still* waiting to hear back about the money I'm owed. This is BS.

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    Reviewed Oct. 17, 2016

    Navient should be listening to their phone calls because they have rude employees. I received the answer, "That's not us," twice today followed with being hung up on. I called the two phone numbers on the two letters I received last week... but none of them can transfer me to the income based driven "Navient" number I needed to see if my application had been processed because I was told with the financial information given, once sent in my loans would be on hold for a year except the ones my two cosigners are already paying on. The first guy said, "Tell your cosigner to call us. We have some programs that may help him". I replied, "You've already told my father (we both received ups letters saying Navient would be taking us to court to take payment) they would be taking his 401k in Maine or his house if he didn't start paying".

    I told the gentlemen that and asked if he had been making the payments, Correct? Yet he just said in his laid back don't give a crap I'm here for a paycheck attitude, "Tell him to call us". Frustrated that he would not give me an answer I said well hopefully trump or the president helps people like my family b/c my parents are both paying and my 5 year old suffers the most from this. I live in a basement and have made less than $10,000 this year. (BECAUSE I HAVE A CHILD AND CHILDCARE COSTS SO MUCH. I CAN ONLY WORK AROUND HER SCHOOL SCHEDULE AND THE HELP OF HER GRANDPARENTS, HER FATHER WORKS FULL TIME.) The employee felt the need to laugh and say trump has nothing to do with this phone call... What a rude jerk to laugh when student loan debt is tremendous in the billions. I wake up and I'm $15 in debt more with Navient.

    I took out $60,000 starting in 2005 now I'm up to $105,000. That was just for 1 1/2 yrs in state and one associate's degree for $40,000 out of state. I finished the rest of college on my own paying as I went on a then $22,000 income and tax refund money. If Navient thinks I'll pick up phone calls from their rude inconsiderate employees who don't take their job seriously or understand the stress and financial burden student loans have caused they should not be there. I've asked many of their employees if they have student loans and they say no. They don't get it. They don't understand how is hurts our families, prevents us from buying a house or even groceries.

    The second idiot I talked to I said right away, "Before I give you my information, is this the right number for the income driven payment plan?" He replied, "Not our department?" I said, "Well can you transfer me?" He said again, "Not our department." I said, "Well I just called a different Navient number and that wasn't it either, can you transfer me? How many different Navients are there?" And he said one last time, "Not out department," and hung up on me. The first phone number 1-855-211-0620, the second was 1-800-722-1300 both made around 915 am. Just dropped my daughter off to school, in a great mood but Navient employees ruin it like always.

    If you want my money Navient process my income driven information faster than 3 weeks later and hire more employee like the gentlemen that told me all about the income driven information by apologizing to me, being considerate of my feelings and trying to solve the problem. He asked for my financial information and wanted to help. Any employee hired by Navient needs to toughen up their skin and learn the words "I'm sorry I'd like to help you". When a customer says I've gotten 35,000 in interest just say those simple words help us, do your job. If Navient is telling their employees if the customer on the phone is rude hang up... well Navient you wonder why you're not receiving any money because they do not care about each of their individual customers especially ones with children.

    The president or someone will have to intervene with the student loan debt because it's sick what companies like Navient are doing... Sending letters out everyday, I get at least 5 a week stating how they want to help please call us, thank you but when you get one of their employees on the phone they hate their jobs and are unprofessional. PASS THE BUCK if you cannot handle a caller and apologize and tell usyou'd like to help. Disgrace of a company Navient is. Hopefully they sell my loans and I get a new company that hires better employees then previous Mcdonald employees. Burger King employees are more professional then Navient employees.

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    Reviewed Oct. 14, 2016

    I had $7000.00 loan here or rather SM. I graduated in 2009 and started paying $83.00 monthly plus larger sums very often!!! My balance today is 6700.00!!! I inquired about the impossibility of my debt being that much after years of paying SM and Navient!!! I have paid $4000.00 but nothing on PRINCIPAL except $300.00!!! I hate to give them another dime. But they assured me that they would be reporting any missed payments to Credit Bureau and I DECIDED to pay! 8 more years debt will be paid in full. Liars... greedy... cruelly unjust with interest rates that are MAFIA type!!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 4, 2016

    I never chose this company; my lender was changed and I had no choice in the matter. These people are awful! My loan was in good standing and I was making payments in full and on time. My co-signer passed away and they took the ENTIRE amount left on the loan from the estate. The people who could have received this money from the estate (who had nothing to do with my loan whatsoever) did not receive it. I called to reason with them and I was given the runaround before they finally admitted that I had no other option - if the money was in the estate, they were taking it. While this is legal, there are other loan companies that will release the deceased co-signer if the loan is in good standing, or give you other options. Navient gave me NO options. PLEASE, for your own good, go elsewhere for a loan. DO NOT get a loan from these greedy, inflexible people.

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    Reviewed Sept. 30, 2016

    In 2011 my mom and I took out a 15000 dollar loan from Sallie Mae for college. I did not use the full loan and used about $13500 of it. I already had a huge amount of student loan debt through a different company (which was not giving out student loans that year) since this was the end of my 4 years of college. While in school they required us to make monthly payments of $25 of interest, paying almost $1000 in interest before I began paying on my loan after graduating in 2012.

    After graduating and deferring for 6 month I owed sallie mae $16500. Last year my loan was switched over to Navient. When this happened my interest rate went up to over 10% without being notified and my payments went up. I've called them several times to discuss lower payments, deferring my loans and why my interest rate is so high. They continuously say that I agreed that I would and could make these payments after I graduated or I get an automated voice that is no help. My payoff date is 2027. I've been paying on this loan since I graduated, even making extra payments, and still have not reached the original principal of 15000, due to accruing $2000+ of interest in the small amount of time between getting the loan and beginning my payments. Along with the interest I accrue between payments. By the time I pay this loan off, I'll be paying more in interest than my original principal.

    They also call you all times of the day and weekends and when you call back they tell you that you owe money and that you have to make the payment now or they will send you to a different department. I would never suggest getting a loan through this company. They do not work with you and there's lack of communication by a real person. I've tried consolidating my loans and remove this loan from Navient but because they are a private loan many companies will not allow me to consolidate with my other loans. So pretty much they scam you by high interest rates and get away with it, all because I wanted a high education so I could be successful and lead a normal life.

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    Reviewed Sept. 28, 2016

    Be very careful with these people. I found a student loan on my credit report. When I called to talk to them about it, they said I had signed electronically. I asked them to email the note and application form that I had filled out. I was told that they had to mail it out because they are not allowed to email it. How odd is that? They claimed they accepted my signature electronically. A double standard. They seemed to care very little about solving this problem. The fraud rep I spoke with gave me erroneous SS# and date of birth. They act like they just don't care.

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    Reviewed Sept. 24, 2016

    Where do I start with this scam of a place Navient!! Well first off I do not have student loan debt and this company continues to call and harass me about my fiancé student loans. I know he has been paying them yet this company wants more! I finally had enough of this harassment! I called and told Mr. Tim ** to stop calling my personal and my parents who are not on the debit and informed him that it is illegal to do so! He was awful to me but I held my ground. I called and called Navient and complained giving them the hard time they give me and my fiancé. When these awful customer service people would hang up since I was not very pleasant I would call them right back! I asked to speak with someone of higher management they gave me a name Bruce! Well Bruce with Navient and Tim ** I will be filing suit with customer financial protection bureau!

    Also will hire a lawyer and expose you for the lying cheaters you are! I will call and harass you everyday. Which I have been and trust me they do not like it. I will fight the company because if we do not who will! This company needs to be closed. Everyone please if you are having issues don't let them win! Start by filing with the customer financial protection bureau. I am also putting together other complaints and information to send to senators like US senator Elizabeth Warren who had been speaking out against Navient. We need to pull together and show Navient that they cannot take advantage of us and the people we love. We can be heard and make a difference. I will not stop until justice is served!

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    Reviewed Sept. 22, 2016

    I have had surgery more than 5 times since I left college. My college closed not even 2 weeks after I left. To top the off I'm considered disabled and Navient continue to harass me and not follow thru with sending out. No payment paperwork. It's very frustrating. Since Sallie Mae changed to Navient the service has gotten worse. Plus they only accept online payments or checks. I have had credit cards stolen more than once and don't write checks.

    The place doesn't follow laws and regulations and then they claim that there needs to be a conversation about my being disabled. They need proof. Then they put my loan on hold 3 months then they turn it back on and put me in delinquency saying I'm not paying it. Claiming they never received papers from me. They never sent!! It should be against the law what they are doing.

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    Reviewed Sept. 21, 2016

    Navient is a horrible student loan company when trying to pay back loans from school. They will not work with you and tell you have exhausted all options just to pay them back. I'm in a financial hole right now and I wasn't able to pay them in three months. They have sent me emails to call them so I can work something out. When I finally spoke to someone she told me the only thing that I can do is to submit my pay stubs and they will calculate how much I can pay back and set up an automatic withdrawal from my bank.

    No no no. I do not trust this company. They're fraud. I borrowed 2,987 in 2006. With my loans being in school deferment and forbearance I owe them 10300 in 2016. And my monthly payments is 135.00 a month and the last payment will be in 2029. If you do the calculation they're going to get 33,000 dollars out of me and 30,000 is interest and I only borrowed about 3,000. They're crooks and they work nothing out with you. I'll be paying them until I turn over in my grave.

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    Reviewed Sept. 19, 2016

    I had requested that they stop auto pay out of my account since my work has been erratic lately, but they did it anyway and overdrafted my bank account. The representative was rude, and did not listen to my request. These customer service people are so irritating when you tell them the situation and then they say "I see you are behind on payments", REALLY? NO **, I JUST told you that's why I was calling and that I cannot have the auto deduct feature! He talked over me when I was explaining that I had called last month to request no auto deduct.

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    Reviewed Sept. 19, 2016

    Why ask if you'll not going to answer. I have been calling for the last past year to let Navient know that I cannot pay because I'm not working and I'm on SSI. They keep telling me they're going to send paperwork to fill out but all I get is bills.

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    Reviewed Sept. 18, 2016

    My wife's student loans are serviced by Navient. I always put a huge amount of money on the loans so they can be paid off faster. For one particular semester loan last month, I paid the loan down to zero. The online menu actually said there was a zero balance and nothing more was owed. A week later, there was a balance of $7.28 that was said to be still owed. Where did this come from? I don't understand how it was ZERO one day, and a week later we still owed more? Granted, $7 isn't a lot, but it's the point that this charge came from nowhere.

    I was never happy with Navient anyway especially when they split from Sallie Mae. There were so many issues with passwords and usernames early on that it was maddening. Why does the Dept of Ed continue to allow a company like this to service its loans? It takes literally days to process a payment that was made online, yet when I go to make car or house payments with other banks, it's processed and updated within a couple of hours. I've never had to work with a company that tries to be so slow with things. If we weren't already pretty close to paying the loans off, I would definitely refinance them with a private company. There's no email contact either. I guess they don't want a paper trail in writing.

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    Reviewed Sept. 16, 2016

    We set up a monthly withdrawal for student loans and this month they took out 3x the amount we agreed upon. Called them and all they said was they sent an email. They make an attempt and increase the agreed payment plan. Said they wouldn't give the money back unless we went negative. Did nothing to work with us. Now we don't have enough to last until next paycheck thanks to them. I wouldn't recommend this bank to anyone. There are plenty others that work with you and understand each individual's situation. Not everyone is the same. Very disappointed and frustrated.

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    Reviewed Sept. 15, 2016

    https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/navient.html. The customer service at 877-713-3833 for private loans is a joke. The recording while I am on hold is unbelievable. They just look this short message about how calls will be answered shortly. Very annoying. The biggest problem with calling them is that they do not even give a hint as to how long the call will be on hold. HORRIBLE customer service. Unfortunately, I will have to deal with this joke of a customer service dept. for years since student loans last that long. I have been on hold for over 40 minutes now. Called earlier a few times, and I had to hang up after 20 minutes since I cannot wait on hold for that long since I am working and trying to make money to pay back this evil bank corp. I guess that since I have no choice who administers my student loans, and student loans are necessarily FOR LIFE, I will have to deal with this joke of a company for a long time.

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    Reviewed Sept. 15, 2016

    I am trying to allocate an additional payment with Navient and finding it extremely difficult. First, the service person presents to not understand English well. Second, he has changed the amount of money owed on the account three times. Third, after going over the $500.00 he was supposed to allocate he couldn't tell me why there was a discrepancy, the numbers did not add up.

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    Reviewed Sept. 15, 2016

    Navient has to be the worse loan servicer out there! I filled out all of my paperwork on time, mailed it in but for 4 months they said they never received it (even though their own website said they receive it & were reviewing the request). They stabbed me with a 110 day delinquency in the mean time which dropped my credit rating 120 pts!!! How could I make payments if I'm unemployed? They are ridiculous.

    When I direct consolidated with another company, all of a sudden my account was in an income driven status & all the paperwork they denied they received 3 months ago was suddenly & suspiciously approved. They lie about EVERYTHING, they do not work with you; they do everything in their power to work AGAINST you!! I do not know whether I'm insulted or angry or a combination of both.

    I wouldn't recommend them to anyone for a student loan. Their customer service is awful; they are rude & during one call I had a so-called service experience rep laughing at my financial situation. When I asked him what was so funny, he rudely replied "You & your accusations; It's not my fault you can't find a job. Go look for one!" I said "I'm a RN & I wouldn't dream of speaking to a patient the way you just spoke to me." He just continued to laugh & actually hung up on me after 50 MINUTES of getting absolutely nowhere. If I could I'd give them negative stars.

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    Reviewed Sept. 14, 2016

    I have been dealing with Navient since they took over Sallie Mae. However, nothing has gotten better. I never get any closer to answered questions even when talking to supervisors, get hung up on and get nothing but attitude but I try to rectify a situation. When my mother tries to call, since she is the co-signer, they tell her they can't release any information to her even though I have faxed over documentation permitting them to do so.

    I have also made payments and gotten my accounts up to date, log onto my account and what do you know it shows that I am over a month behind yet if you scroll a little farther down to my payment history it shows I made payments on all 6 loans. I also dislike the fact that when you explain to them you need to lower your payments because your situation changed, you give them your financial statement for the month and they tell you "well you're upside down" yeah because you all have made my payment 3/4 of my paychecks. What do you expect.

    Then they proceed to tell you that if you lower your payment any further down you won't be making any progress in paying off your student loan. So when I break it down to them they get all snooty because they realize they are robbing people blind. Doesn't matter if my payment is $600.00 or $100.00 if you all are accruing over $2,000.00 of interest on my loans, there's no way I have even hit principal and I will never get them paid off. This company was trying to help out the borrowers when they bought Sallie Mae but they seem to be the same if not worse than them. Never and I mean Never borrow from them.

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    Reviewed Sept. 2, 2016

    This student loan company is the worst. I cannot call them to ask them a question because my question is not on their menu. They are making it very hard to find out what documentation they want me to send them. In one e-mail it says they have received everything they need and yet I have no updates on my account.

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    Reviewed Aug. 25, 2016

    Why do they have an automated question about paperwork when you call? Apparently, I'm not the only person that has submitted the same paperwork over and over and over. Is there someone who just throws out the faxes as the arrive? WTF???

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    Reviewed Aug. 24, 2016

    I guess this is frustration therapy. Needed to vent somewhere and this seems to be a good place. Seems like all of the earlier reviewers have a very congruent and fair assessment of what dealing with Navient is like. I have spent the last four months trying to sort out an issue with my online payment... which is consistent across different computers, etc. Basically they acknowledge there is an error that gives me the message "an error occurred" when making a payment but they have been unable to sort it out. I don't have the strength to write anything more. But you can guess...

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    Reviewed Aug. 24, 2016

    I am currently have some in school deferment with Navient AKA Sallie Mae but the problem is I cannot afford to attend school or pay my student loan. I have tried to work with Navient but my monthly loan amount is $2073.98. I am currently the only person working in the household. I am currently trying to sell our home but with house payment and apartment payment in another city it is impossible for me to pay. I had to travel to keep a job so I had to move 2000 miles away for my home. I am trying to sell our house now but I have to keep up with the mortgage payments until it sells. The town we moved to is very expensive so my apartment is more than what our house payment was. :( Some months I barely have enough to get groceries. I do however make good but by the time I pay, Mortgage, apartment, car, insurance, and groceries I have 60.00 left out of my check.

    I have begged for help with Navient. They said I could pay 700.00 a month. If I could afford 700.00 a month that would pay for me to go to school to put Navient in deferment for 4 months. They call me 8-12 times a day, call my relatives. It is crazy I get letters saying they will help but the only help I get is 700.00 a month payment. I just cannot afford it. Some days when I go to work I take my own water and carrots to eat on because I cannot afford lunch. Sallie Mae even told me it would be better if I defaulted on my 300K loans. They could sell them for pennies on the dollar and I would have to work out payments with a debt collector. I am so stressed I don't know what to do. I have taken my kids out of school to homeschool them because of the expense. I am just lost.

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    Reviewed Aug. 23, 2016

    My federal loans from CMU are directed through Navient. I am still in school but I got a letter about 7 months ago saying I was going to have to start paying in 6 months. I called immediately to let them know I am still in school and they "took care of it". I got a voicemail the other day to login to my account, so I did and it shows that I have a late payment due of $256.xx. I am ENROLLED FOR THIS FALL SEMESTER. This was supposed to be taken care of and now I have this issue and I know they are going to be rude because they always are. I am so furious that this has even happened to me when I was prompt with taking care of the issue when it came up 7 months ago.

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    Reviewed Aug. 19, 2016

    I am not one to share experiences or post reviews, but I was compelled and determined to write a review against Navient/Sallie Mae. The automated phone service I just experienced was worthy enough to almost jump off a building. I called to simply change my address and it was just changing the apt number! I spent 5 times repeating my actual address over and over, before it hung up on me. Then I called back and the wait time was 1 min. before it hung up on me. Finally after repeating our address verbally, slowly and with patience... we FINALLY got our address changed. It is no surprise their overall rating on this site is 1 star. If I could provide NEGATIVE or ZERO I would be more than happy to.

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    Reviewed Aug. 12, 2016

    Since Navient took over Sallie Mae loans, I have had nothing but trouble. According to Navient I owe 167,000.00 on student loans with a income based payment of 1224.56. I am a senior citizen with a monthly income of 1124.00 from social security. Deduct 775.00 for rent monthly, medication that costs about 150.00 per month, leaving me maybe 22.00 to tide me over until the next social security deposit. They say I'm not eligible for any type of hardship deferment because they were all utilized when I was with Sallie Mae. They continue to add interest and late fee. I filed bankruptcy last year and with the trustee, "his comment was that's enough for a new house." What other options do I have with these shysters, you never receive accurate information when you call and they constantly call harassing you about your payment. I'm at wits end, what can I do?

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    Reviewed July 19, 2016

    I have encountered so many issues with this company. My husband has three student loans that Navient received from Sallie Mae when the "split" occurred - one private loan, co-signed by my mom and two federal loans (one subsidized and one unsubsidized). When this happened we were in the middle of a Chapter 13 pay-off plan and had been paying Sallie Mae regularly through our Trustee.

    We paid over $11,000 throughout this time period (The original loans had only been $9,000!). I thought that at the end of the bankruptcy in 2015, all three loans should have been paid off. That was not the case at all. Only the portion of the $11K paid to Sallie Mae BEFORE the "split" was applied and there is no record of the more than $7K that was sent to Sallie Mae AFTER the split in 2013 at either Navient or Sallie Mae (However, I have the actual check numbers of the payments made from the Trustee's office). This made the interest capitalize and Navient claims we owe them $18,000 on the three loans after interest and fees.

    I've submitted a dispute to Navient with the list of check numbers and amounts and have waited a few weeks and haven't heard anything back on this yet.

    Navient started harassing my mom, the co-signer for the private loans, shortly after our Chapter 13 successfully ended at the end of last year. My husband, the actual loan holder, never received one phone call or letter. We started to pay off the loans $160 at a time, asking that a majority of our payment get applied to the "delinquent" private loan and the rest to the two federal loans.

    The harassing phone calls to my mom continued. We made extra payments to the private loan to get them current as the missed payments hit ours AND my mom's credit score hard. Then we got on an automatic payment plan to have $117 applied to the private loan and $43 split between the two federal loans. This stopped the phone calls to my mom but that's about all it did. All of this money went towards fees first, then interest and NONE to principal.

    A few weeks ago, I looked at the online account and noticed that we had four missed payments for the federal loans. I made an extra $123.11 payment to get us current on the unsubsidized loan, specifying that I wanted the payment to go towards that one which it did - at first. Then I noticed my automatic $43 payment made a week later was NOT split between the two loans. It was only applied to the subsidized loan, effectively making the unsubsidized loan late again. I did not give my permission for Navient to apply my payment this way.

    I called and after two hours of going around and around with an agent, she assured me that my payment would be split between the two loans as it had the during the previous two months. Nope. I looked this morning and she not only left the $43 payment the way it was, she also moved the $123.11 from the subsidized loan to the unsubsidized loan. We are now SIX payments late even though we paid $123.11 EXTRA on top of the monthly $160.

    I called this morning and after an hour of trying to explain to a representative and her supervisor what I saw clearly on the Navient website, I was told that they apologized for the inconvenience but they couldn't make any changes without having my husband on the line. Strange how they were able to make changes just last week without his permission on that same topic (On multiple occasions he has given permission for me to talk with them at any time). Then after I brought that up, Lee, the floor supervisor hung up on me.

    I'm so fed up with this company. I feel like we've gone beyond making good faith efforts in trying to pay off the "delinquencies" and get our credit reports cleaned up but they haven't followed through by applying the funds in the way requested or agreed upon. It's a documented shell game. They make it difficult to pay off delinquencies and are sneaky, rude, and frustratingly ignorant of the information on their own website.

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    Reviewed July 18, 2016

    This is the second time that my FIXED rate, FIXED term has changed! It's a few dollars, no deferment, no changes, etc. In most cases this would be a violation of law, but not this outfit. Looking at a equity line today to get this loan killed off! Thank GOD I can do it, I feel terrible for the hard working people that can't change. I DON'T feel bad for the freeloaders who we have to pay for!!

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    Reviewed July 13, 2016

    I am done trying to work with this company. I miss Sallie Mae. I had never been late and had a deferment due to the school I was attending actually going out of business and leaving the state. I was billed for classes I could not even take. I have tried and tried to get this corrected and forget trying to get a late payment mark off. I sent credit reports, showed proof of the school closing and multiple requests to remove or correct. I have paid all payments due on time, and have more than 10 late strikes and have never been a day late. This is not fixable and I am upset that it is this hard to deal with them.

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    Reviewed July 13, 2016

    NAVIENT is a federal student loan and they use multiple different collection agencies. So far I've had to deal with ERS (Enterprise Recovery Systems, Inc.) and now Allied Interstate LLC. I was all set to have my loan paid off in FULL this Aug. 2016. In FEB. ERS said to me that if I paid a lump sum of $606.23 of the $1212.13 balance I owed my loan would be listed "as full settlement of debt paid." I repeatedly ask if I would be contacted about the remaining balance and was assured the account would be closed. NOT!

    Now it is July 2016 and I'm being contacted by Allied Interstate about guess what??? NAVIENT SOLUTIONS INC. I now owe $620.23, yes interest added AND if I can pay $274.20 right now "FULL Settlement of this debt will be applied and account closed"! I called both collection agencies, ERS told me "that they do have me listed as account closed and if the loan was a federal loan that I would have to pay the full amount owed."??? Why would "They" put out a lump sum pay plan??? I didn't ask for it! I was OK with the on going arrangement that was in place??? THEY PUSHED ME TO AGREE TO IT! So Students BEWARE! And SUPER GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL!

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    Reviewed July 12, 2016

    PLEASE READ!!! Navient has truly given me the worst experience ever! I qualify for the Public Service and Income-Based programs. Navient told me I was enrolled. After a year of payment, I went to the Federal government student loan site and found out that Navient never reported I have paid a year into my Public Service program, which means I would now only have 9 more years to pay (in the Public Service program it means I qualify to only have to pay my loans back for 10 years). Navient told me they have nothing to do with that.

    I called the Federal Government department that handles student loans and they said that Navient is responsible to report it to them so they can update it in their system. Navient lied!! After I confronted them on it, the story changed to, "well, we have it reported on our website, so that is good enough." No it is not, because in the end Navient could choose not to honor the program after my 10 years of payment and there would be nothing the government could do about that.

    My next complaint is when I decided to leave Navient and consolidate my loans, I sent in a forbearance request through the company I was using. I made the mistake and told Navient I was leaving so they then denied my request saying "I used all my request up". Now remember they said this. In the meantime, they reported to the credit companies twice a month saying I was not paying. Within 3 months they reported 8 times!!! Once my new loan provider sent over a request for payoff amount, Navient sent the amount back and my new loan provider paid it. I was happy, NO MORE NAVIENT!!!

    Well, guess again, Navient only sent over the amount they wanted. They kept 2 of my loans and continued to send me correspondence and harassing calls. I explained I am no longer with them and the rude customer service rep said "guess again". Then he said he will do a forbearance for the amount I owe to bring me current for 3 months. Now didn't they just deny my request saying I used up all my forbearance request??? WHAT!? The new loan company immediately got on it to send over paperwork requesting the other loans. Why is Navient being difficult? If you don't want to comply with federal government laws, they need to be SHUT DOWN IMMEDIATELY!

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    Reviewed July 10, 2016

    I have student loans with Navient and one other servicer. I am on the Income Driven Repayment Plan at this time and recently sent in information to update my plan for the next year. I called to get confirmation that they had received my information and later that day got some emails. One was correctly addressed to me, but three others were addressed to someone with my first name and a different last name. Then a few days later (just this past week) came several letters to my address for the same person with the same first name, but a different last name. (I sent them all back "Return to Sender.") Then came collection phone calls for this same person on my telephone answering machine two days after that! I am current on my student loans!

    I called Navient. Not only have they not processed my updated Income Driven Repayment Plan details yet, but I found out that they had falsely paired my account up with someone else! This person is apparently 90 days behind in making payments on her student loans and they were contacting ME about HER account. The representative saw my account and realized that there was a different person's account that some idiot in their company had linked with my contact information. She supposedly got the accounts unlinked and promised all would be fine.

    Then three days later I got notice that my credit score had dropped 120 plus points! I pulled my Experian credit report and this woman's name is now also on my credit file, as are several delinquent Navient student loans, a collection for DISH (I have never ever had DISH, so I know it's not my debt), and even some closed positive accounts that were never mine! I also saw several addresses and telephone numbers pop onto my report that are not mine, but instead are apparently this other person's information.

    Navient is run by IDIOTS! My last name and maiden name in no way come close to this other person's name. Just because we have the same first name does not in any way mean we are the same person! I have never even lived in the cities that she's lived in! There is no excuse for this at all. I am convinced that STUPIDITY must be a requirement that Navient looks for when hiring people! It defies logic that anyone could even pair me up with someone with only the same first name, but different middle initials and different last names (I have NEVER had her last name).

    So now I have to dispute this with the credit bureaus, call up Navient on Monday (of course I found out about this on a Saturday and they care closed for the weekend), and who knows what hell their huge error is going to now cause in my own life? What's worse is that I recently applied for a credit card and was turned down. I thought it was odd because the only negative stuff that should be on my report are from several years ago when my husband lost his job and we had a financial setback. All is now current and paid on time. But now that I realize that Navient has screwed up my credit file by reporting FALSE and DEROGATORY data, my score and report are tanked at no fault of my own. If you can steer clear of this company, do so! I have never in my life dealt with such dumb bunnies!

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    Reviewed July 10, 2016

    I have been trying to get Navient to change my son's loan back to the original loan terms. Somehow it has been changed to an interest only loan. I call and call the women I deal with call back when she feels like it. Sometimes not for months. My husband is the co-signer and now he is paying back the loan. They want all this credit information to see if he qualifies to have the terms changed. IF HE QUALIFIES...ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME. It has now been 3 months since my last call or email. I never get a response.

    Then they don't send out the statements. Imagine that when you don't get your statement you are not even able to login online, the system doesn't recognize you. Then you finally get through and tell you are missing 4 payments. What a crock. I can't believe this is what they are allowed to get away with. I'm going to hire a private attorney, not pay the bill and pay the attorney. When they call and start with their harassment this time I'm going to record it. Then at least they have a reason to call.

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    Reviewed July 8, 2016

    It's almost impossible to get through to a live person. I finally figured it out on my third call. You have to press 1 for "Make a loan payment" and then you can press the number for a live person. The person who finally answered just repeated back everything I said. I finally had to tell him to shut up and just answer my questions. I guess they stay in business because people need the loans. Next time I'll use one of the other companies. I'd give them less than one star if I could.

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    Reviewed July 5, 2016

    I have, unfortunately, had to deal with Navient for a number of years. I have been attempting to lower my student loan payment amount since May 2016. The extremely unhelpful customer service reps have done absolutely nothing to assist me in this endeavor. I had to do all the research myself and jump through hoops for Navient and here we are in JULY and still not making any progress. In addition I requested forbearance while I was working on lowering my payments to something I could actually AFFORD to pay and that didn't happen. Now they are saying I am behind in my payments. If I don't stay on top of them every minute they screw everything up! I consolidated my loans and now they list my debt TWICE - once as the original loan and then once as the consolidation loan. They have the worst customer service and I do not understand how they are able to stay in business.

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    Reviewed July 5, 2016

    So like clockwork, I make my payment. Heck, I even pay twice what my payment total is. At an interest rate of 12.5 PERCENT!!! I have a great credit score and nothing I am into has an outrageous interest rate like this. So I called customer service line for help. Lady at Navient says I have one option and it will lower it .25 percent. Are you kidding me?!?! 0.25 percent on 12.5 is NOTHING!!! I hope the American people and government come at Navient with everything they have, shut this place down. They're stealing from people who are trying to better themselves and be better providers for their families, military hero's veterans. How dare you Navient!!!

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    Reviewed July 2, 2016

    My son took out student loan and I co-signed for another student loan. I talked to them and paid it off two times now. They have impacted my credit rating and still after the second payoff have sent me another bill for $740 after confirming the amount for a 2nd time and pay it off in full. They are a bunch of cheats and liars. They gave me the same loan number they assigned to him and having thought mine was paid off they continue to bill me. I paid it off in full again after making a 2nd call to them. Today I get another bill for $740.

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    Reviewed June 30, 2016

    In February 2016, Navient put the consolidated student loan with my husband in forbearance without my husband's signature. When I called to find out why my monthly payment was not taken out of my bank account, they confirmed that they had made an error and that they would put our loan back in repayment status. This was never done. I called each month trying to straighten this situation out. Each month I called only to be told it would be fixed and my next payment would be the next month.

    Now, in May they have finally rectified their error but are telling me I have to pay the back interest of my student loan because I did not make March or April payments. The customer service representatives repeatedly gave me wrong information. I was promised returned phone calls that never happened. Now they are trying to bully me and each payment I make goes all to interest. This is a compliance issue. Federal regulations state that both parties need to sign the application for deferment form. Despite their error I am being penalized.

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    Reviewed June 29, 2016

    If I am 30 seconds late making a payment, Navient will call me upwards of 5 times a day and they've gotten tricky. They will call me from different numbers and area codes. I've gotten calls from them that register as Washington, Delaware, NY, PA, etc. Sometimes the calls are back to back, sometimes they are spread out over the day and can go into the evening hours. Super unhelpful in getting payments adjusted. I'm upset that I even have to give them 1 star. They deserve none.

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    Reviewed June 24, 2016

    I have been making payments for 4 years now, and my loan doesn't seem to drop. In fact it looks like I owe more. One of my loans was paid off. I even received a letter from Navient confirming loan paid in full. Two months later it went into repayment. I am very disappointed with this lender. I even went through an Ombudsman to fix the problem. That did not help, so I decided to stop payments. May god help me.

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    Reviewed June 20, 2016

    I can't even begin to say how disgusted I am with Navient. I am a STUDENT, full time, I work as a restaurant server full time, and make MAYBE 24,000 a year. I pay rent, bills, and for my school all by myself. Navient requires me to pay interest on my loan every month. At first they told me 550 a month and I obviously told them they could forget that. What am I supposed to do, forego my rent to pay them? They lowered my payments to $174-190 a month, after some haggling. When I had a past due balance and told them I literally only had a certain amount in my pocket, they let me give them 220, and said they would stop the calls until the following month when I could pay again. NOPE, called me every day three times a day or more, even when I picked up the phone to explain that I had paid and could pay again the next month, which a representative had already told me was fine.

    THIS COMPANY IS DISGUSTING. I am a full time student, working my ** off, not sitting on my ** not working or educating myself. For me to take all the money I had left for the month, pay them, and then they continue to call me everyday??? Your company is a joke and I can't wait for the day all the of companies who are trying to sue you take you to court. :)

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    Reviewed June 11, 2016

    Communication SUCKS! I especially "love" the endless robo calls that when you ask for a human hang up on you! I also "love" how they electronically respond to my emails and called on a complete different topic! What a mess.

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    Reviewed June 7, 2016

    I have switched to the income based repayment plan because I currently have $0 income because I have not been able to get a job since getting out of Grad School. Hence all my interest is capitalized. Or sort of... But there is a catch. I have accrued FEES from late payments/former payments... or something else (they can't tell me what the fees are from. Hummm???) I paid off the $167 in fees online because they wanted to charge me $12 to make a payment over the phone. (That's a high fee!!)

    However, the fee was not paid off. After a few dozen minutes on the phone with auto menus, loud static, lots of clicks that sounded like they hung up (which it did once) I finally got a person that I finally got some confusing information out of. Later I finally figured what she was avoiding saying: First, they deducted the amount of my unpaid interest. (That which was accumulating to be capitalized AT THE END OF THE YEAR.) Then they applied the remainder to my fees. So, I still owe $87.57 in Fees that must be paid or late fees will be added to my mysterious "Fees".

    So, as the year progresses, I have to pay ALL THE ACCUMULATED INTEREST since applying for the no income, zero payment repayment method before I can pay the fee. Thus, if the fees went unnoticed for another few months, I WOULD HAVE TO PAY AN ENTIRE YEAR'S AMOUNT OF INTEREST BEFORE I COULD PAY THE $87 IN FEES. And I am on the zero payment option because I have no job. Where am I to come up with the thousands of dollars it would take to do that?

    Now, I will have to take a look at the end of the year accounting and see if they capitalize the full year's interest, or give me credit for the amount I have to pay before I can pay the unpayable "Unpaid Fee." Want to take any bets I'll have to make some more calls to get things straightened out then??? Student Loans will never be forgiven... They are MUCH too Lucrative and can be run by different rules that would be unacceptable to any other loan program.

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    Reviewed June 2, 2016

    I have two Private Loans with this company, it has been a nightmare from the start. I have had payments misapplied several times. One of my loans was with a co-signer which I made sure got paid even if the other one did not. Due to economical events I became unemployed for awhile and had to endure threatening phone calls and disrespectful representatives. Point of interest, Navient plays "Good cop, bad cop" to get something out you. "Is there anyone you can get the money from?" My personal favorite.

    I have had numerous deceptive stories (lies), I eventually got in the habit of calling back to verify what the previous rep said... Never the same answer twice. "This call is being monitored", "I am logging this into your account", they even amplify the strokes on the keyboard. I was so harassed by them especially when they called my cosigner because I had missed a payment, my cosigner!! Then they started sending her letters and had the audacity to call her job. Needless to say she was furious and angry with me. One missed payment!!!

    Now here is where the deception of all deception comes into play. In an attempt to rid myself but more importantly my cosigner (She began to think I was lying to her when I assured her of what was related to me by their reps that she should not have been contacted and it would be taken care of... got worse). I was proactive the minute I became employed and was told that I was in a program that by setting up $150.00 a month payments both loans would be paid-off. I just wanted to end this and was happy to comply.

    During the pay-off period I would call and get verification of receipt of payment and proper allocation, that's another story in itself. I was sent a email outlining start to finish date and was assured I would be free and clear. I held back mentioning that the two Private Loans combined was no more $3,500.00. My first payment was mid December 2014 and was suppose to end February 2016 which was last month of the auto payment.

    Now I awaited the rep on the phone to work it all out and tell me what the payment "Under the program" would be, he calculated $150.00, sent me a nice payment calendar to make it look official. I asked the right questions concerning this arrangement and sought assurances, I asked for confirmation stating this arrangement and unfortunately I cannot recall if he sent it which I believe he did using my job email address which no longer exists. Okay so I made all these payments through auto-pay, wanted them to be on time because that was a stipulation supposedly with this program, no problem. Today (6/01/16) my cosigner called me and said she got email saying over $3,000.00 is outstanding!!!

    I was deceived by them is the least I could say. I am so furious and fed up with them. You read the paper and hear about people doing violent acts of aggression, but what I learned dealing with this unethical and deceitful evil crooks, sometimes there may well be a valid excuse for their actions. These crooks need to be stopped and made an example of for those who follow their business practices. THEY SHOULD GO TO JAIL!!!

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    Reviewed May 31, 2016

    I have multiple different loans that have been in deferment and forbearance their whole lives. I have never made a payment on these loans but somehow they are showing up on my credit reports with multiple 190, 150, 90 day lates. This is impossible because they were in deferment or forbearance their entire lives. When Sallie Mae had these accounts it was only showing 2 or 3 lates. After the transfer to Navient in early 2014, up to 11 late payments per account have popped up on my credit report by you. This has ruined my credit. Also, these late payments are being reported very oddly. All of these separate accounts have different late payments for different months. This makes no sense because they were always due at the same time.

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    Reviewed May 18, 2016

    I am a co-signer on 3 of my partner's private student loans with Navient. We have had issues with them ever since they have gone into repayment status. When he was working on his internship for his master's degree, we filled out the paperwork to have the payments deferred. SURPRISE, he didn't qualify and he was told that the internship deferment wasn't eligible for those loans, after he was told that they were. Then in January (2016), they were supposed to go into default. It was 3 months later before they actually did, 8 months after the loans had gone into default, which last time I checked was 240 days when the standard is 120. During those 3 months, we offered Navient a payment that we could afford but we're told that they "couldn't do that amount" because the lowest they could go on the interest rate was 1%.

    Once the loans were actually "transferred" to a 3rd party collection agency, the interest rate surprisingly went to 0.001% and was told by the collection agency that making the payments (auto payment) would be reported on our credit report but that was an outright lie, because according to Courtney at Navient, the payments will just reduce the balance and couldn't explain why TransUnion shows it being closed and Experian shows it being open but both show as charged-off. Normally when a company charges off an amount, it shows a ZERO amount on your credit report and in their systems and the balance is transferred to the collection agency, which will not allow you to view your account nor make additional payments once an auto payment is set up. I'm glad that I have transferred all of my federal loans from Navient to another company that is much easier to work with and won't tell you something different every single time you call them.

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    Reviewed May 16, 2016

    When completing the consolidation for my student loan, I have printed documents that Navient would not begin processing for 6 months. It has only been one month and they have completed the processing and are now billing me. When I called to complain they stated that once you consolidate your loan payments being immediately which is contrary to my written documentation. Also, the amount quoted is a lot less than what they are now billing me. The interest rate is also much higher than quoted. DO NOT CONSOLIDATE YOUR LOAN WITH NAVIENT!

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    Reviewed May 6, 2016

    My son is in default on his student loans through Navient. He is also unemployed. I am a reference not a co-signer on his loan. I was called at least 3 times by 3 different numbers with only 1 voicemail today and the same thing happens day after day. I then received an e-mail message from the Human Resource department where I work. It contained a voicemail from Simone **. I was seriously taken back by this. I went outside my office and called. The number that she called was a self-prompt line. I asked why she did not do the spell by name for myself. She said that option was not available.

    I have worked for this company for 16 years and I know how the phone system works. They have also contacted my next door neighbor, old landlord and my 80-year-old mother. These people's names did not appear on my son's loan papers. I know this has to be illegal. They also have no right to be searching my records for information. How do you make this stop because they obviously don't listen?

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    Reviewed May 5, 2016

    I have always wondered why I could not go on the Navient site, log into my account, and increase my payment. Recently, I received a letter detailing a required change to lower my monthly payment and then an automatic decrease. Is this so they can milk as much interest out of me as possible? I'm taking out a balance transfer on a credit card to pay this off today. If I have to work 2 jobs to do it, so be it. I'm not giving them another dime.

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    Reviewed May 5, 2016

    Navient (Sallie Mae) is definitely a rip off. I started paying on my loan about 4 years ago. When the government started the loan forgiveness program, I called Navient to make sure my loans were under the correct program because I work for a public service company and my loans could be forgiven after making 120 qualifying payments. They specifically told me I was in the correct program. Now 4 years later when I decide to check on my progress with FedLoan, I find out that I've paid Navient over $14,000 (4yrs of payments that doesn't qualify). So I immediately begin to transfer my loans to FedLoan servicing. I was on auto pay with Navient. They received a payment that FedLoan sent back to them. I have been calling them since October 2015, trying to get my money back and Navient keeps giving me the runaround.

    I filed a complaint with my state and Navient responded to the state: "they have some of the recorded calls and they have my original loan agreement (signed when I was in college) but they don't have the recording of my asking about consolidating under the loan forgiveness program." How convenient not to have "that" telephone recording! They also claim that they don't have the payment but I have a letter from FedLoan Servicing saying they sent it back to them. Navient is full of it and they should have to give back any payments they fraudulently received from any student loan consumer. They are misleading a lot of borrowers. I don't mind paying back my student loans because I was on auto pay with Navient and still is with FedLoan but I just don't like to be deceived. Navient and any other company that deceive consumers should not be able to get away with it and move on to the next victim!

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    Reviewed May 4, 2016

    3 loans I consigned with Robert ** (nephew). I have set up repayments for three loans Loan Numbers **. I have the payments at twice the minimum amount due to pay loans off asap. Bill pay is set up to be received on due date, on 25 April 2016. I received a letter stating loans are past due. I called Sallie Mae/Navient to see where the problem occurred. I spoke with a disinterested employee who told me my payment was late. I escalated to a supervisor who seemed to be equally disinterested in understanding the issue and simply said he would waive the "late penalty".

    I called Navient back with my bank on April 28th and spoke w/ Kurt in the Philippines who seemed only interested in telling me that he understood, yet I was still late and my payment of $100 was split between 3 loans. Did not seem to care or hear, although I repeated myself about 10 times that over the last four months I have sent them a total of $1200, yet they are only crediting the loans with $400 payments, accruing interest and late fees. My bank has sent Navient/Sallie Mae with proof of payment, yet I just got off the phone with "Jeff" who seems to be a reject from the IRS, who kept repeating his Script not acknowledge anything I had to state...but was sorry for my frustration and continued to ask me to repeat myself.

    I want, IN WRITING, a letter from NAVIENT/SALLIE MAE an accounting of payments made on these loans and the interest charge on any "outstanding balance" and late payments removed from these loans. Plus I want credit for my time to correct this. I make $25 an hour and have spent 3 hrs spinning my wheels with these less than professional employees.

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    Reviewed April 28, 2016

    Every time I call Navient, I get off the phone feeling like there is just shady business going on. I had put my loans in forbearance and when I began repayment this month, I was on the graduated repayment plan. While my minimum monthly payment is $191, I was okay with this because I will ideally pay more than the minimum payment and at the very least, I am paying the interest that accrues. When I logged on to the website on 4/14/2016, the amount due was an additional $100 from my agreed upon payment. I paid it, without question, since I was sure I had some outstanding interest from the forbearance.

    The payment took 6 days to process, and after it showed the payment had been received and was withdrawn from my checking account, it showed a balance of $0.25. I honestly ignored it; I was not going to make an online payment for a quarter. But I logged on again on 4/25 to see if there was a late payment because of the $0.25, and the site said I had an overdue payment of $31.49. By the time I saw it, it was after 9 pm, so I called on the morning of 4/26 and spoke to a very nice young woman who was more than happy to look into this. Trust me, that's where my compliments end. After 25 minutes, the representative was unable to see why there was an overdue balance when my payment more than covered what I owed. She basically concluded that the money was not allocated properly and that it looked like I was paid ahead on one of my loans, so she would pull the money from there.

    That really isn't an acceptable solution to me, because I will still owe an extra $31.49 in May, just on a different loan balance. And even though the loan in question is not penalized by late fees, she insisted this was the appropriate way to handle it. I don't get it, but at this point, I'll just say, "Whatever". Now, here's another issue. As I said before, my agreed upon payment for the next 2 years is $191. However, the website says I owe $153 for May. And my emailed statement says $178. So which one do I pay? Again, this was a question posed to the rep I talked to, but they just keep saying one of my loans is paid ahead, so that's why the amounts are different and to go by what the website says, as that is the most up-to-date information. Well, I did that 2 weeks ago, and now I have an overdue balance, so...

    Since I am on the graduated repayment plan for the time being, I am making hardly any impact on the principal of my loans. That's okay since I was recently injured and missed more work than I had PTO available. And once I get back to work next week, I will be able to make larger payments. Also, since my payments per loan are so small, I have been unable to find a calculator online that will assist me in finding a fairly accurate amortization schedule. So, I called yesterday, 4/27, to see if one for each loan could be emailed to me. The first person I spoke with began telling me about other repayment options. I stated that I didn't want to change anything at this time, given my injury and decreased pay at the moment. He replied with, "Then I don't understand what you're asking for." I told him again that I wanted an amortization schedule for each individual loan, and he replied he didn't know what that was.

    At that point I asked if there was someone else I could speak with, that may be able to provide me with my request. I was transferred to a supervisor and when I clearly stated my request, I was again presented with other repayment options. I again stated that I did not want to make any changes at this time, I just wanted an amortization schedule so I could see the impact of my payments, and use it to see how an additional payment would affect my loan. I was then told that Navient does not provide such schedules because balances change too frequently and by the time they emailed them to me, the schedule wouldn't be accurate.

    Now, I understand how interest is applied to student loans, but in my life, I have also had other types of loans, and was provided a breakdown of my payments whenever I would ask. And besides, I even stated it didn't have to be 100% accurate, it merely needed to give me an idea of how my payments were being applied. The supervisor then rattled off some numbers which represented the total interest I was accruing per 30 days. She rudely repeated that an actual schedule wouldn't be possible and I would have to use those amounts to figure it out myself.

    When I asked her to repeat the numbers, she literally sighed and told me to hold on because she wasn't even looking at that part of my account anymore, then instead of providing me with the amounts, asked if I was online looking at my account. I stated I was not, and she told me to log in, and directed me to how to find the amount of interest I paid on my last payment for each loan so that I could add them myself. Thanks, try to be less helpful with your next customer.

    You know, I have been very financially irresponsible in my life, and I freely accept that I have done some stupid stuff with money. But I have also spent the last few years turning it around. I placed my loans on forbearance for as long as I could because my credit cards and car loan carried MUCH higher interest. Now that those are all paid, and I use credit much more responsibly, I have the means to make a real impact and get these loans paid off. But when the amount due constantly changes and the math is shady on what I paid, how can I trust that any extra I pay toward my loans will be applied in the appropriate way?

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    Reviewed April 28, 2016

    Have made monthly payments in either $25, $30 or $50 increments over the years. Statements show less credit than what I have paid and in odd amounts; shorting my credit by less than $1 every time. Principal + interest = what I paid. Where is the money being allocated/siphoned? Sent a letter asking for explanation of discrepancy. No response. Multiply this by how many thousands of customers per month and it adds up. They should be audited!

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    Reviewed April 27, 2016

    Navient has the WORST business ethic of any company that I've dealt with, here you have people who are trying to take care of their loan situations and these guys make it extremely hard! I've sent them an Income Based Repayment Plan 4 times and each time I have been lied to and I really would rather not deal with these guys, so if it's possible to switch my loan to another lender I will be looking to do so and I advise YOU to do the same! Navient = TRASH.

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    Reviewed April 26, 2016

    I was under deferment until June 2016, or so I thought. Until in March I started getting emails saying my payments were due. So I sent in paperwork for the Income Driven Repayment Plan (I would owe nothing per month - sucks being poor), they said they received it on March 31, but I sent it in on March 28th. On Friday, April 22, 2016 I get an email telling me that my paperwork was still being processed. But on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 I'm told I'm late and I have to pay. So I called Navient. I was told where to go to on the website to apply for forbearance or deferment. Well, those have been used up and nothing else is available. The woman said that I would have to pay March and April's payment or risk being "late" until my paperwork is processed. To which I asked her why I'm being penalized if they are the ones taking their time with the paperwork, that's when she got pissy.

    I don't like not paying my debts, but Navient makes things very hard for people and really has no real concern for anyone. If I could make payments I would, but due to the fact that my income sucks (need I remind everyone, I DO have a degree), I can't make those payments. I would have hoped they could have helped me with the paperwork process, or make an emergency deferment for a couple of months, but no. I don't think it's because they can't, but it's because they won't.

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    Reviewed April 24, 2016

    I faxed my Income-Driven Repayment plan request several times and I called customer service to make sure they received it and they say yes. I just received a letter in the mail on 4/22/16 saying I'm no longer eligible for this program and my payment will be going up! I'm on non-taxable disability! I’ve called several times to Navient for myself and my mother and was told to fax the forms several times and they said they got them! There is something going on with this company!

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    Reviewed April 23, 2016

    I have fallen on some really hard times and went from making about 60000 a year all the way down to 29000, I can barely afford to make it day to day. On top of all of this I was living on the streets for a month because I could not afford a place to stay (thankfully my friend let me stay at his apartment till I get back on my feet). I called Navient to try and put my loans into forbearance and they said, "Sure but you have to pay $150.00 and that would be for 3 months." They said after the three months I could call again and put them back in but would have to pay another $150.00 and then I could put them in for 3 more months (the max 1 year) and pay another $150.00.

    This is a joke. The whole reason for why people put loans on forbearance is because THEY CAN'T AFFORD THEM. So why the heck would they charge to put the loans in forbearance? After spending an hour on the phone not only was I very irritated with them, but I was just so angry. This company is a joke and anybody that has loans through them I recommend taking them somewhere else, I know I am.

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    Reviewed April 20, 2016

    Have been emailing the president and executives from Navient for 6 months to negotiate my over 100,000 of loans which now tacked on about another 25,000. They have also given me the runaround and are threatening me now. I had a friend who co-signed and they said they can afford to make the payment when in fact they cannot. She is old in hospice and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. They have threatened her. Really how greedy and heartless can they be. I have been offered by a friend a lump sum of money to settle the debt for approximately 60%. They have refused because of the co-signer. They were supposed to call me back today but did not... Another days interest. Help.

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    Reviewed April 19, 2016

    Sallie Mae/Navient has ultimately drove me to the point where I will refinance my loans elsewhere. Customer support (if you have the time and patience to wait to speak to someone) is unable to explain to me why certain changes had occurred to my loans. Simple Q&A that should be available with a phone call is a horrific task that leaves customers like myself bitter and broke. The constant struggle for personal and financial support has left me exhausted and defeated. I'd rather pay another provider the rest of my life than give Sallie Mae/Navient another penny. YOU SUCK NAVIENT!

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    Reviewed April 19, 2016

    I had some student loans through Sallie Mae that I'm told were sold to Navient a while back. Recently I had fallen behind and told them I started a new job and hoped to catch up. As in the last 2 weeks I've started receiving phone calls during the day about being behind. After the first one that came during the day when I'm at work I called back on break and asked them to cease calling during 8-5pm but could email me and I would respond when I got home...

    Fast forward 2 weeks and they've started calling from different phone numbers even after being told 3X "DO NOT CALL ME DURING THE DAY". Two of the people said they would remove my number and read me this "authorization" for phone contact and I said "NO". The guy today called me from YET ANOTHER NUMBER and told me that the authorization is for auto-dialer calls only... **. I advised him I am on the national "do not call" list and since they record their calls to make sure that the phone contact ceases or this will be reported... This company is nothing but sharks.

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    Reviewed April 17, 2016

    Recently I paid my loans in full and sent the full amount to their GA address. I held two loans, one with Dept. of Education and one private loan with Navient. Navient owned both loans. The Dept of Ed cashed the check for 62,000. This was at the end of March. Since April 1st I have been waiting for the check to be returned to me and they continue to call me and harass me that the account is in default. Meanwhile they are aware of the issue and that they are sitting on 35,000. In addition, they keep telling me I owe money but they have yet to send me a bill. This was another problem I noticed throughout the years. They would call me to harass me to pay but I did not receive a bill for that month. They are very inconsistent and NO ONE can answer your questions. DO NOT DEAL WITH THIS COMPANY!

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    Reviewed April 16, 2016

    I would happily give back my degrees to not have to deal with this company. They said Sallie Mae change to Navient to better serve us. That is such a load of crap. No matter what I try to do, I get the runaround. They have no office hours on Saturdays to deal with these issues. I do not have hours during the week to be on hold, transferred around, and then be told I need to contact someone else. I called the agency I was told to get my paperwork that Navient said they do not have access to. (Really? Then what do you do?) Contact them. They tell me to get in touch with Navient. I can't, My account has been disabled forever. I can't get it reset. It's Saturday and when I call, choose the option to reset, they tell me they are not open and hang up. Exactly how is that helpful?

    I have struggled with trying to deal with getting these accounts straight for 5 years. Yes 5 years. Forms. Wrong forms. Misinformation. Each person tells you something different than the last. Each one says, "Trust me. I am giving you correct information." When I returned to school this last time (not requiring a loan) but wanted to continue the current repayment status, I was told I could not. Really? I WANT to repay and can't? Now I am trying to re-establish paying again and it is one problem after another.

    I just want to be done with this. Can I give back my degrees please? Please? You can have them all back if I never have to hear from student loan companies again. The education is not worth the hassle. If someone had told me that repayment (not even talking about the actually money here) was almost impossible, I wouldn't have bothered to get an education. Trust me! Don't get loans. Don't bother to get an education. Wait until Sanders makes it free for everyone. No degree is worth this frustration.

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    Reviewed April 15, 2016

    I got my student loans in 2010 and paid til 2013, I owed at that time $7,000... I been unemployed since 2013 with major anxiety attacks. I've called so many times and I can't get a hold of an operator. The time I did he told me that I can apply for forbearance going onto studentloans.gov and had to apply there, and that website was going to automatically sent all paperwork to Navient. Oh but I forgot to tell you I been trying to log in my account that I had online. Previously with Sallie Mae I had no problems but it's been over a year. I can log in and called the number and no help. So this guy tells me to create another account which I did...

    So back to forbearance, I went to studentloans.gov and that website tells me to go to my current student loans provider for more information. So I go back to Navient and had trouble finding the site where they had information for forbearance and deferment. They have a link which says "click here to apply for forbearance" so I click and takes me to main page because I have to be signed in to my account. I sign in and go back to the same page to apply. Finally I click on the link and it takes me back to sign in page? wtf!!! I am so tired of this student loan company. I tried contacting them and no luck. What can I do? I am trying to work with them but they don't work with us at all... I want to give up but it's ruining my credit... Why does the government let this happen?

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    Reviewed April 14, 2016

    I have a 20-year consolidation loan which originated in 1996. I have always paid on time every month since the beginning. I did have a 14-month forbearance which began in 2011. At the end of that forbearance, my payment was increased as I was told by Navient to cover the accrued interest which was added to the balance. In 2015, I called Navient to see what my balance was and to confirm when my payoff date (last payment) was to be in 2016.

    To my surprise, not only did Navient increase my payment (as I expected) BUT they added 33 months to my loan period. I asked when they did this, who did it and I stated that I never agreed to it. I wanted to see the paperwork explaining this and where I signed in agreement. This added an additional 11,000 dollars.

    Navient will not provide any documents. Working with my State Senator but they don't really understand and I am on my 3rd attempt to get the info I have requested but the DOE does not ever comply. Any attorney law firms out there who have experience with this or is there any class action lawsuits?

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    Reviewed April 13, 2016

    I consolidated all my loans after graduation. My mother, whom cosigned on one private loan, has been getting terrible phone calls everyday demanding more than 1000 dollars and threatening to sue her for my "default account." Navient refuses to contact me directly, and they refuse to send us ANYTHING in the mail. My mother and I have contacted our local DA, and Consumer Protection. I also filed a complaint with the BBB. These people are nasty, rude, and have no intention of "working with" anyone. I am not default, and there is no indication on my credit report, and when I contacted Navient directly, they told me, "We don't handle collections."

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    Reviewed April 13, 2016

    Since my loan was taken over by Navient, I believe their loan processing (interests rate and allocation of funds) uses incorrect or fraudulent practices. I sent payments in on a weekly basis. The combined monthly payment exceeds the minimum amount due. For example, two weekly payments in the amount of $60 and $10, for a total of $70 per week or $280 per month. Reviewing a 2 month period, only one of my payments showed more funds going to principal than interests. All payments are routed to interest first even when the check is annotated with "PRINCIPAL ONLY". Calls to a Navient agent does not result in a payment being deferred only to principal and none of the agents I have spoken to on several calls have the ability to explain anything about my account other than amount currently due. However, I have had that answer change on several calls to the company on the same day.

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    Reviewed April 12, 2016

    I have been making payments for several years now, but they still have me listed as delinquent and default by 33 payments and you can't get in touch with someone by phone. I also notice that I was charged for a 1-01 Career Training course of $426.10 in May 4, 2016, which is confusing since it's a future date. I never took any course, and it said I'm already behind? Is there any way to get legal action or just someone that can hold them accountable and reverse the damages they are doing to my family's finances and my credit score? The crazy thing is they claim I only invested 0.1 cent on my student interest loan when last year it was over $1,000. Both years I've been paying the same amount on my student loan.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2016

    I decided to make a large payment on my loan. It was taking out of my account, then later I found out that Navient reversed my payment and now I am charged a late fee. I have tried to make the large payment again and the same thing continues to happen. I have now "missed" payments and three late fee charges. No one via email or phone will correct the mistake. Action will be taken as I have proof from my bank that it is Navient doing this to me.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2016

    I took a loan out, started paying it back and the amount is still greater than what I took out. I barely make enough to cover my own expenses and they call 5 times a day pressuring me to pay. I have made attempts to pay as there is financial hardship. Customer service are very judgmentally and voice their thoughts about the fact I'm not able to pay enough to them. Please I need assistance. I am doing the best I can with what I have. If there is anyone who has some extra money to help pay off my loan or if this company is doing fraud please help me!

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    Reviewed April 4, 2016

    I am pretty sure I got scammed. I was on Facebook and clicked on a link that said Obama's Student Loan Forgiveness. I got a phone call right away. Gave my info. They said I could have my loans consolidated and I would have to pay $499 for some processing. I could set up a plan to pay the $499. They charged $1 to make sure my payment would go through. I called them back and cancelled that but now I got a paper in the mail with Navient "Department of Education Loan Servicing" with all my student loans consolidated into one amount. I haven't made any payments to them yet. Is there any way to change it to a legit Loan Company???

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    Reviewed April 3, 2016

    Navient - no email contact, no application to switch your payment plan, have to go through 15 different automated robot options to speak to a live person, the live person is usually someone who does not speak English well. If they do not want to be bothered talking to people, why do they not have an email contact or forms online for repayment plans? Just like to waste your whole day with robot options and talking to someone who barely understands you.

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    Reviewed March 30, 2016

    I have nothing good to say about this company. They are now servicing my loan after they claim it defaulted with Sallie Mae. (I was laid off from my job and couldn't afford to make payments but Sallie Mae handed my loan to Navient regardless.) So I have consistently made payments to Navient for 2+ years, never late, they automatically withdraw my student loan payment from my personal checking account. I was reviewing a statement from almost a year ago which showed a smaller balance than the one I currently have. I called Navient to ask them to explain this and their only response is that they need a high level manager to call me back which never happened after 3+ attempts to get an answer. The rep I spoke with said should feel lucky that Navient has even agreed to help me at all. He kind of insinuated that I was ungrateful.

    So no straight answers, they are not "helping" anyone, and they cannot explain why my student loan bill is going up instead of down. They need to be investigated, I'm sure they are ripping off countless borrowers and I question the legality of what they are doing. They will frequently ask me if I want to settle my loan and they will throw some figure out there like $6,000. Who knows how they arrived at that number. If I had that kind of money I would pay them to get them out of my life. But I think the fact that they make an offer like that further points to the fact that what they are doing is not legal. Please someone investigate them. They are getting away with criminal behavior.

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    Reviewed March 30, 2016

    So I spoke with a Navient customer service rep on or around Feb 16, 2016 concerning my loan because I notice that my entire payment was being applied to interest. After some discussion I was told to pay $50 to lock in the monthly payments of $455 and that my first payment is due on April 1, 2016. I was assured that there would be no additional fees and that monthly payment would be $455. I logged on to make a payment today only to find that they wanted me to pay $320 more than what was agreed upon. When I called to ask why the payment was $775.67 they said I applied for forbearance, which is not true.

    On Feb 16, 2016, I was told that $50 payment would stop phone calls, but the lady I spoke to today told me it was to process my forbearance request. I tried to explain to her that I never applied for forbearance. I also made it clear that I was assured that there would be no additional fessing that that my payment would be $455. I asked to speak to a manager and was kept on hold for 10 minutes, so I hung up only to find that the manager (I assume it was the manager) called me while I was on hold. I am strongly considering filing a lawsuit. I see that many of you have experienced similar tactics. Who wants to join me in a class action lawsuit?

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    Reviewed March 29, 2016

    My son has 7 loans that are in default with Sallie Mae. Navient keeps calling us up to 7 times a day about these accounts even though we have no loans through Navient. They refuse to provide us with paper copies of these loans or promissory notes. Today they sunk to a new low by calling me and somehow using my son's phone number. I cannot see this being legal. I am considering contacting a legal firm to start handling this.

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    Reviewed March 29, 2016

    I have tried numerous times to pay more than my minimum due when I have a bit more money on certain months with my credit card. I get rewards on my credit card more so than their BS 0.25% discount for auto debit and they say I can only do that with my bank account number. I don't like having a company whose policy is we will take this money not that money to have my bank numbers. Isn't there some law against penalizing students from paying off their loan faster?

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    Reviewed March 29, 2016

    My payments to Navient recently went up from $78 to about $191 which is a huge jump! I received two very nice letters from Navient stating "your loans are about to go up, we can help you with payment options," which I thought was extremely nice! So, I call them up and I get a gentleman on the phone, and I tell him that more than doubling my payment is not going to work for me since I live penny-to-penny. I pointed out that I'd been an incredible customer up to this point and had NEVER missed a single payment; if they raised by payments by this much, I was not going to be able to continue making payments.

    He said no problem and then continued to rhyme off a list of a TON of options available, and I'm thinking thank God! BUT, he ends the conversation with, "buuuut, none of these options are available to you." Then why are you reading them to me?! To tease me?! So, basically it ends up that there are no options available to me, and that I'm going to get stuck making these obscene payments, so I ask to speak to a supervisor, because guess what? I can't afford the payments!!!

    The supervisor was BEYOND RUDE, she gets on the phone with an attitude. And I said, "I cannot afford to make these payments, why would guys want a excellent customer to go into default?" She's like, "I don't care, you're going to have to find some way to make these payments." HOW?! Where does all this extra money supposed to come from? Magic? Please stop pretending like you're a good company and willing to "work" with students (past and present), because you're not. You're a loan shark, plain and simple.

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    Reviewed March 28, 2016

    So I receive an email yesterday from Navient saying my statement is ready. So I took a look and saw that I owe over $500! I flipped out but because it was Easter Sunday, I wasn't doing any business on the Lord's day. I call them this morning and am being told that I owe $255 and some change on March 25th even though my bill said I owe $100.16 and also for upcoming April. The rep is telling me that I reapplied for the IBR Plan in January and I'm telling him no I didn't since I applied in Dec. He said they have a signed application from me and I sent them proof of my income in Feb. which I now remember doing but I thought it was from my original application so now my payments have gone up by $155 even though my income has NOT changed from last year and I get paid once a month.

    Has anyone experienced this issue and what have you done to rectify it??? I cannot afford $255 a month and if I come off the IBR plan then my payments are $200.35, I asked him why the payments are lower off the plan and he said he was using some income table. Trying to be a good citizen and pay my bills but these damn student loans are gonna be the death of me!!!

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    Reviewed March 28, 2016

    According to Navient's own website, I have paid $36,767.23 on my loans. Navient has applied $28,653.18 (or 77.93%) to INTEREST. At this rate, I will never be free from these loans. When you try to go through your account records, there are sales, adjustments and purchases that make no sense. It's impossible to figure out what is going on. Avoid them like the plague. Their tag line should be: Navient- new name, same predatory lending practices!

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    Reviewed March 24, 2016

    I have been concerned with Navient's customer service but after reading some of the complaints on the Consumer Affairs website I'm actually encouraged because now I know that I'm not alone. I believe that together we have a fighting chance of bringing Navient down. They will not get away with trying to destroy the financial lives of so many families. I have been sending Navient my information since January 2016. Navient never responds to me to let me know what it is that is lacking. The only correspondence I receive are account summaries with total payment due. I am doing all I can on my end, but I am upset with how time-consuming Navient is. I am extremely disenchanted with them at this point.

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    Reviewed March 23, 2016

    Navient does not work with young college grads to repay loans and will not reduce payments to a manageable level. They agreed to a payment plan and 3 days later came back and said the Sr manager did not approve. Was put on a 20 minute hold before hanging up when I requested to speak to a manager. They hung up on me 3 times after requesting to speak to a manager about their behavior and lack of willingness to review the loan. I had to call another department to speak with a rep and even they agreed that the behavior was uncalled for. They are the WORST student loan company ever and no one should ever secure a private loan with them.

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    Reviewed March 23, 2016

    I've spoken with this company with the attention to settle previous debt that I was trying to clear up. I called them in January of this year with attentions of rehabbing my student loan and this rep refused to do it after Navient told me I must rehab to consolidate my student loans. Amanda ** who refuse to give me her employee ID mislead me to believe that she would fax over a hearing request 3/21 & 3/22, then after they refuse to answer my calls over 5 times today they then put a so call manager on the phone that explain the mail room was closed for today and no fax could be sent this last.

    They have broken many laws and I'm happy to say I recorded all call a that we had. Sad that lender use misleading companies like this to handle their business affair. Pioneer credit recovery which is own by Navient is a simple minded group that refuse to allow me to get out of debt by holding information regarding my account by not returning calls. Not sending of garnishment form to my address. Sad.

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    Reviewed March 19, 2016

    First of all, I have received 40 calls from 888-272-5543 since Feb 25th of 2016. That is when I went to NoMoRoBo and found out how to block this number. These 40 calls so far are logged. Previous to 2.25.15, I'd get the calls 3 times a day. I finally called the number back, being that my name and the name they are asking to speak to are not exactly the same.

    After waiting over 45 minutes, a nice lady took my call. I told her the history of these phone calls, and how I am NOT the person they are seeking. My first name is JANE, they are looking for JANIE. After a few minutes of discussing this matter, it was discovered that these loans are owed by my deceased husband's first wife. Unfortunately, even though I was told this matter would be "taken care of", the calls still are being made. These loans were taken out AFTER their divorce and I am not responsible for her debts. Since I am NOT the owner of the debt I don't know what else to do. I am (yes) sick and tired of this matter. Suggestions?

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    Reviewed March 18, 2016

    In addition to refusing to make negotiations via the mail, after repeated attempts to get answers without having to talk to someone on the phone (which I contacted the CFPB about a few months ago), Navient has received over $20,000 in payments from me over the last 5+ years. I was horrified to find out that as of today, almost ALL of that money has gone into interest only payments. Of the five separate private loans that were taken out, only ONE of them has decreased by around $1,850. The rest of them have gone up - way up. In short, $64,000 has turned into $75,000, and counting (yes - that's $30,000+ in interest and fees - just about half of the original loan). This is a nightmare.

    I am making the only payments I can "afford." In all reality, I can't even afford the monthly payment for the plan they put me on. But after trying to negotiate with them on the phone this February (while on the brink of default) and being asked all of my income and expenses, they came up with a random monthly payment after talking me through their 1% interest plan. That number does not line up with my income vs. expenses - which are extremely high, and always have been. But according to their reps, this is the best offer they are willing to make.

    Even after explaining to them that I am an artist - living paycheck to paycheck, that I do not have health insurance because I cannot afford it, and that I need to start putting money away for retirement (but cannot afford it), there is still no other solution on their end. It is so incredibly disheartening that all of the money I have worked so hard to support myself with, and have used to "chip away" at my student loans, feels like it is being thrown to the wind. It seems that no matter what I am able to afford, no payment is large enough that will make a dent in my principal balance. It feels like there is no end in sight, and I am increasingly frustrated with the way that Navient does business.

    It is truly criminal what they are getting away with and I don't know where else to turn. Private loans need an income based plan or something, anything to relieve the pressure from these monsters. Having a college education should not warrant punishment, but that's exactly how it feels. Like many others here, I desperately want to pay down the principal balance. And like so many others, Navient is making this a near impossible task. All of us need to start speaking out against this complete and utter nonsense. You are not alone. Make your voice heard.

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    Reviewed March 18, 2016

    Called yesterday 3/17/2016 to get help concerning student loans with are behind due to wife becoming disabled and currently cannot work due to neck and back surgeries which have not worked thus our household income has been reduced by 1/3. What a joke their customer service is. The first line agents know and do nothing, placed on hold each time she had to see if they could help me (Multiple times). With all their supposed programs they cannot help people in trouble. Been laid off three times (Dislocated Defense Worker, caused by the US Government).

    At the time Sallie Mae said I only qualified for a forbearance, never offered any other program or help. Thus around a $40.000 loan now over $75.000 (almost doubled, over $30.000 in fees and compounded interest), it is like the banker having the key to the vault, or a payday loan company. I see now why they did not offer me any other helpful programs, they are really just Congresses loan sharks running the system! They get to have their cake and eat it too. I graduated in 1996, I am 58 years old. I will never get to retire. The way it is going I will be dead before these loans are paid off. I am not asking for a free ride, just some real help. Piling more and more fees and compounded interest is not help, it is just helping someone dig a deeper hole in watch one cannot get out of at almost 60 years of age.

    I am also a US Navy vet and yes used part of my old GI bill to start college, but the old bill was canceled and thus had to get loans to complete college, while raising a family of 4, working full time, and helping put my own kids in college. No Vet should be saddled with college debt at least for a BS Degree. Also why do they base the help on Gross income? The US Government takes almost a third of my income out for taxes (my money that cannot to be used to pay my bills) and that does not count the USG 's requirement to have Health insurance (More costs). The US Government created this mess. They need to provide real help and fix it. The system has already made enough money off me already.

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    Reviewed March 18, 2016

    I am so frustrated. I really do want to pay off this loan faster. Years ago all my loans were consolidated by USA Funds. Then I was switched over to Navient. My total loan is now around 35,000. I have been making all the regular scheduled payments online. Then I started making a few extra little payments online. It seemed to me the daily interest they charge was going up so I watched it daily. I supposedly have a fixed interest rate of 8% (too high I know but I had no say so in the matter - this is what they assigned me).

    I was being charged $6.72 a day in interest. I had an extra $1000 saved up so I decided I would put it on this loan which has been a noose around my neck for years. So I paid the $1000 plus $38.10 that had daily accrued for 5 days at $6.72 a day. I chose the online option to not advance the payment. So it went through without any problems. The next day it show as posted, with $1000 applied to the principal and $38.10 to interest, as I was hoping. Then for the last few days, I have been watching the details of my loan. They are now charging me $7.40 a day in interest instead of $6.52!! That is 68 cents more per day in interest than I was already paying... In year that will come up to $248.20 MORE in interest! On a loan that the principal that is now $1000 LESS!!

    The people on the phone are useless. How can they do this? I am afraid to pay extra again now. If I pay extra, are they just going to keep going up on my daily interest? I have tried to research answers on this but I can't find anything. This means that this extra $1000 will be eaten up in four years. I thought about hiring an attorney but I really don't have the money for an attorney. I feel so helpless and feel like I can never win with this student debt. I went to a pricey private school that I thought was my dream but it has turned into a nightmare. I will not allow my children to repeat my mistakes. No student loans for them ever.

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    Reviewed March 18, 2016

    When Fannie Mae was forced out of business because of deceptive and criminal behavior it became Navient. Navient has refined the deceptive and criminal behavior to an even greater degree. Navient has created a plethora of associate companies that they use in their deceptive practices. Find any student loan guarantor or collection company and you'll find they are all part of the Navient family of deception. My son has been trying to pay off his student loans for 6 years. First Navient took his monthly payments and applied them only to his low interest loans early and making his high interest loans go into default. Once they made his loans go into default they started charging him additional fees often great than the total interest on his loans.

    At first when asked Navient refused to tell him that his loans had been put in default then later when he owed tens of thousands more on these loans then they reported that they were in default, too late to save him from 24% penalties, etc... Navient agreed to transfer the loans to the US Department of Education Default Resolution Group so that the loans could be paid. Five months after they said that the loans had been transferred to the Dept of Ed we find out that they were sent instead to another Navient subsidiary, NW Loan Association, which has now enlisted Navient to continue to collect the debt. I have called every two weeks for 5 months and all I got was "You need to wait." It takes 90 to 120 days (crazy!) but in the end just another lie. Contact Senator Patty Murray's office and every other senator on the Education Committee. Someone has to stop this horrible injustice to our youth. Sell a Lie Steal a Life.

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    Reviewed March 17, 2016

    This company gives you a different answer about what you are calling about every time you call. They harass your co-signers before even calling the principal account holder. You think you are getting it handled and the next week you find out that last person told you the wrong thing in the first place. This company is fraudulent and crooked, and needs to be investigated. I am surprised there is not a class action lawsuit yet.

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    Reviewed March 17, 2016

    I had made three payments on my loan over the course of three months. The interest deducted from each payment is about $250, however, my monthly calculated interest for all the loans I owe is approximately $90 confirmed by the Navient customer support. When I asked why I am being charged $250 a month interest when I owe only $90, the very uninformed customer representative keeps telling me that the interest rate is compounded daily. I said "I know, answer the question I have," then she says I owe over 1200 $ in interest. I asked for what period, and she has no clue.

    Then I am referred to a research group for a response in a week. I know how to calculate interest. Either they are intentionally ripping me off and many others, or their website and calculations are wrong and is reporting wrong amounts. In either case their representative was totally incompetent. How can a company with this behavior/competency be allowed to handle student loans of many? Don't they need to meet a level of standards to be allowed to handle students' loans? I will keep pushing to find out the bottom of this, but I am very frustrated. Wondering how many other people studying their interest charges see the same. By the way, the interest charges are under account/loan history.

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    Reviewed March 13, 2016

    I was a student with an associate degree, and I want to complete a BS degree. My education is very important to me and I accrued student loans because my college grants were not enough to pay for my classes. I had loans through Sallie Mae and up until 3/18/13 then I started get email from Navient a company that I did not know. I began to experiencing Loan amount doubling from 24,561.06 to 43,345.78 on the same date of 3/18/13 . I contacted this company complaining, and I told this company I wanted to stay with Sallie Mae. I did not have problems with Sallie Mae like overcharging me, and I would like an investigation of this contract company that took over my student loans. I have been a student and I still had loans still increasing by 20,000 after I called Navient. I went in online and completed forms to get a deferment and it completed.

    I called Navient to check on status of account and I was told to redo it. I am tired of feeling like I am being purposely inconvenience, and I would like for Navient to be investigated. I have been a victim of ID theft, and I am trying to get myself back on track. At this time, I am a student at Ashworth College with Student **. Thank you for your assistance in this matter. Thanks.

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    Reviewed March 9, 2016

    I have several loans with Navient (Sallie Mae). I keep my loans in forbearance while I make payments because I can't really afford the payments they require. So I make more than interest payments each month, so they don't go up. But recently checking my statement I found that Navient says I have to pay $247 a month in interest. But when I make payments it only take $180 each month for interest, leaving me a leftover interest amount every month, which they then apply in July, like they did last year. All my payments went to interest and then they capitalized more than I paid in principal due to their faulty payment processing. When I raised a concern with them over the phone, nothing but talking in circles, and saying this had to be researched. I believe they are doing this to keep people in debt...

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    Reviewed March 9, 2016

    Navient keeps saying that my account is delinquent. They say I owe money when I do not. I keep getting phone calls stating that a payment is due. I overpaid them $100 in the month of February hoping this would clear any past due amount they said I owed. Well, that did not. They are still calling me requesting more money.

    This company is a fraud. They tell you one thing and then call you weeks later with conflicting information from what was said before. I always make my payments at least two weeks ahead of my due date. This month I am going to overpay them $53. I guarantee next month I will be receiving phone calls saying I am delinquent again. I am truly dedicated to making the correct payment amount and on time, but Navient mission is to harass borrowers regardless if you are making payments or not. I'm sadden by the fact that this company can continually get away with causing Americans mental distress and financial strain. Why should I have to overpay to avoid getting phone calls when they are going to call me anyway.

    I feel hopeless in this situation. They are driving me mad. I cannot take this anymore. I have so many other personal issues I am dealing with and this is adding fuel to the fire. The sad part is I am making payments and on time. Anyway, they are really clever. They are able to manipulate any situation to make themselves right. With this company, I feel like I am living in a black hole and no one cares if I see light, because I am the borrower.

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    Reviewed March 8, 2016

    If you don't have a tablet or a smartphone their payment website will not work. It never fails. From month to month I log into my laptop to make a payment and it never works. I then need to log into my account via my smartphone to make a payment. I find this to be annoying and not user friendly. They need to change their website immediately for proper payment (by which is interest only).

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    Reviewed March 4, 2016

    I am currently unemployed and unable to pay the required payment(s) amount. I was told by customer service that based on my income of $10.30 an hour I qualified for an IBR plan and that my payment would be $0.00. I recently received via email (recently) two different statements. One showed a payment around $300 and another showed an amount around $600. That is not an IBR payment. Who are these people? They seem to be mimicking the scumbag, loan-shark mafia of ACS. A few people have already filed civil lawsuits against ACS. I'm waiting for a mass civil lawsuit to happen. Seems to me that these people are not even following the rules that Obama set. Aren't the interest rates supposed to be no higher than 3%? I'm clearly confused and have no idea what's happening.

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    Reviewed March 2, 2016

    I don't know what the difference is between the Federal and Private loan divisions of Navient. This all started because after 5 years of being on a very low payment plan, I was notified that both my Federal & Private loan payments would be changing. I should start off by saying that I had a fantastic experience dealing with them for my Federal loans last month. The rep worked with me to explain my options and come up with a plan that actually works for me. The rep told me it was too early to deal with the Private loans, as that payment wasn't changing until April. He recommended I contact them in March and gave me the number to call.

    So I called Navient yesterday to see what my options were to lower my "new" payment amount for my Private loans (expected this to be easy, like the federal, I realize they are different but didn't realize how different). First the girl answers, asks me my SSN & Name, and says "oh you're in the wrong dept" so she transfers me to another girl. This person asks the same questions, and follows up to confirm my address, phone #, etc... So then she says "I see your account is up-to-date and current, what are you calling for?" But she said this in a way like, "why would I be calling if I'm making my payments on time?" (it was very odd). So I told her I was notified my payments would be going up quite a bit starting next month and I wanted to see what could be done to lower them... the phone goes silent... it's like she hung up on me but never disconnected the call...

    I waited probably 3 long minutes saying "hello?" every once in a while. I thought maybe she was checking on my account and perhaps forgot to mention the "please hold" in some form or another. So, not knowing what number I was "transferred" to, I called back the same number I originally called. Told the girl that my call must have been previously disconnected, looking for someone to look into my account and assist with my payment options. So now she can help me (meaning, I was never in the wrong dept to begin with?). She tells me my payments are going up 200%(!) but that it's good because I'll be paying more towards the principal. I say, "yes that would be great," however I was paying the lower amount and no extra because... that's all I can afford.

    She asks why my co-signer isn't helping (my mom, I graduated 7 years ago... the last thing she wants to do is pay my student loans, she JUST finished paying the loans she took out for my first 2 years). I told them she's not in a position to help. So this girl tells me to list out all of my expenses on the phone with her... asks me about everything. I'm not prepared for this, I don't have numbers in front of me, I've never really thought about how much I spend on food every month? So we finish her little quiz and she puts me on hold, comes back to tell me that I shouldn't have taken out a line of credit for a car last year, since I should have known my payments were going up. Guessing they ran my credit report while I was on hold WITHOUT telling me, is that legal? She then proceeds to tell me there's nothing that can be done. That I should be glad I have a "very low" interest rate and that my payment isn't all that high.

    I told her I wasn't prepared for her "expense quiz" and that if I find I was missing something, should I call back? She said that her "supervisor" wouldn't approve a loan extension, and even if they did it wouldn't make much of a difference. So that was about it... zero options provided. I RARELY write reviews, good or bad, ever. I just couldn't shake this conversation, it was so demeaning. I suppose my only real option, aside from dealing with them for the rest of my life while I pay off these loans, is to consolidate through another lender. I understand I took out loans, I just cannot believe the unprofessionalism I encountered. If I have any advice, it would be to STAY FAR AWAY from this shady company.

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    Reviewed March 2, 2016

    Navient has been a one of the worst headaches I have ever received from any business/service provider. I have recently found out that the monthly payment that I have been making were all going towards my loan's interest. This would not have been such a shock if I was not misled by Navient that some of my monthly payments were going towards the interest and some towards the principal. That was a lie and it took me almost a year to find this out. I have been making about a year worth of payments and the total balance has increased. How does that even happen? Well it was due to them taking my "extra" money payments (etc. "extra" meaning money I have paid over my monthly interest payments) and paying the interest instead of the principal.

    I learned from my financial advisor that as long as I cover my monthly interest payments I could request for any extra payment to be directed towards the principal. So, I called Navient... and to make a long story short, regardless if I request how I want my money to be divided, they will take and pay what they (Navient) feels like needs to be paid. Until the interest is paid off, they said. I need help. Is this not against the law for them not to honor my request...??? By no means am I not trying to pay them money. I just want to pay enough to cover my monthly interest and pay a little extra on the principal. Considering that the interest is based on the principal balance, who wouldn't want to bring the principal balance down...???

    Navient is the answer to that. They are trying to keep me from paying any money on my principal balance for as long as they can. SMH. College was fun (Tennessee State University) and I had some experiences of a lifetime, but maybe I should have went to a trade school and/or just started working fresh out of high school. At least I wouldn't be in the situation I am in now - having a degree and working right next to people that simply didn't think about trying to get a degree. Due to the debt that this degree has put me in, I have to work EXTRA hard to make it out here. Word to the wise, think long and hard about borrowing from Navient or going to college without a scholarship because the consequences can be brutal and it's not getting any better. You could borrow $20,000 to go to school, but by the time you're finished paying it off, you've paid $100,000. Can someone help me please...???

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    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2016

    Every year when IBR time comes around, no notifications are ever sent out and account us always been disabled months in advance, so students don't get notices. This company continues to defraud students in an effort to make them late and compound interest. They refuse to process paperwork and keep rejecting, so that they can collect late fees. They have destroyed our ability to buy a home and we are now living in a hotel with our 2 children. If our income is 53k per year, how can the payment be $1500.

    They are incapable of processing an IBR that includes a federal paystub. On the paystub it is written bi-weekly and in the hours worked for the pay period it states 80 hours worked yet they keep rejecting based on missing pay period. This is a deliberate act to defraud our family! Every time I update my contact info on their website I come to find out that that contact info is missing or altered a short time later. My account is randomly disabled during the year so that I can make mistakes in managing this account. I hate this ** company!

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    Reviewed Feb. 26, 2016

    We originally had Sallie Mae for our school loans, and they were fabulous and easy - but then they got bought out by Navient. Navient is, BY FAR, THE worst loan company to deal with!! Our biggest complaint is that they make it difficult to actually pay them!! They hound you for payment, but are extremely picky about how they want to be paid! With Sallie Mae, we were able to use a credit card, debit card, or check and it didn't matter who paid it (spouse, parent, etc.).

    But with Navient, they will only accept a debit card over the phone (for which they charge you $15!!) or online, but it has to be your account (CANNOT be a spouse, parent, etc.). And with the customer service, they just keep repeating themselves, that 'they can't do that, they can't do that,' which is frustrating to listen to! I have N.E.V.E.R. dealt with a loan company as stupid and awful as this!! I feel completely trapped since Navient bought out Sallie Mae, and if I possibly can, I will be RIPPING my loans from them and taking my business elsewhere!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016

    I'm writing here because maybe not enough people have complained, which is why NOTHING is being done about Navient, but they are low down. They're crooks. Yes, we took out the loans. YES, we want to repay them. When you can't pay a mortgage, you can refinance. We don't have that option. You work with the company. Right now they're telling me I can more than afford my payments. I just did the math... no, I can't. I'm left with close to $100/mo when I calculate how many bills/expenses I have to live, and how much they want me to pay. That's all I have. $100/mo. And we all know how expenses work.

    Some days you might have to pay for extra things. Maybe gas prices go up. Maybe you start a diet and need to spend a little more on food. Maybe you see a specialist. I'm barely surviving. I want to get back on track but they won't work with me. They tell me to just pay nearly $700/mo - I have another loan! I have 3 student loans, in fact! I'm disappointed nothing's being done. We just want our payment per month lessened. That's it. We WANT to pay them back! Someone help. PLEASE.

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    Reviewed Feb. 22, 2016

    My account was recently disabled and I was not able to log in- I engaged Navient's customer service team, and it has now been almost 3 MONTHS and my account was JUST fixed today. Navient mixed up my social security number with someone else's which somehow caused my account to become disabled. In total, I probably called close to 13 times before the issue was ever solved. I was told I needed to fax over a copy of my Social Security card and once I did that the problem would be solved. I was not comfortable faxing my SSN Card in the first place and asked for another option, the representative told me that I could log into my account and attach a copy online. I laughed at her because how could I do such a thing if I am LOCKED out of my account... I was then told I needed to reset my password online, which I couldn't do because my account was disabled. I was told that the login was not case sensitive, which is not the case...

    I called 72 hours later to follow up to see if they had received my SSN Card and they informed me I would be able to log back in the next day. Once again, I try to log in, account disabled... Yet again, another phone call, provided with the wrong terrible information... no help... Finally, after escalating this to a team lead, I was provided with mediocre service & my problem was solved after a 47 minute phone conversation. To top it off, I did mention the 13+ times I had called, & the Team Lead said, "It shows you only called 3x in our system, our reps must have not added any notes to your file." Their customer service is terribly uneducated and unhelpful, the fact that it took almost 3 months to solve a problem they created in the first place by mixing up my social security number with someone else's is ridiculous.

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    Reviewed Feb. 22, 2016

    Navient is performing credit report soft pulls every time they call to collect on a debt without consent. This is illegal and I'm going to seek an attorney to sue them.

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    Reviewed Feb. 20, 2016

    I can't login into my account to get the tax form I need due to not having the ID/password combination. I tried to reset it, but I keep getting an error message. When I called, not only was the office already closed, they claim it was already sent. Trouble is, it was NEVER mailed or e-mailed. And we have a tax preparation meeting tomorrow.

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2016

    Navient's overseas call center calls me three to five times a day. I'm making payments, but not the amount they require. I've been trying to resolve my student loan problems for years, but there are no programs they can offer to assist me. I've told them to stop harassing me, but they persist. It's having a negative effect on my mental health and is not just annoying but torture.

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