Between July 2023 and March 2024, we partnered with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) on a monthly webinar series. Each webinar focused on a different aspect of the return to repayment and highlighted an action item to focus on.
If you have a defaulted loan, the Fresh Start program was designed to help the most vulnerable borrowers improve their credit and get back on track.
Action Item: Explore Fresh Start for Defaulted Loans
We discussed both the On-Ramp to Repayment and the Fresh Start Program during this webinar. If you had loans previously in default, the Fresh Start program may be a good program for you.
Learn more about Fresh Start on the FSA website.
As a reminder, you may also look into options on your loan servicers' dashboards for self-servicing since call times are high right now.
You can access links we shared in the chat during the webinar by downloading the Student Loans Updates Links Sheet, which also contains information for every webinar in the series.
