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It is time to try Crunch students, the money they need for the fall semester. But with lenders to continue their student loan programs - the number is now at 131 federal loan lenders and 30 private loan lenders - students may challenge for the donors, or with the federal or private student loans.

In a test for credit providers to the situation, the new federal student loans, the government, a provision to ensure continued access to student loan legislation that, in a law in May, the provision of capital for flow strapping lender.

Under this scheme, the Ministry of Education can buy Academy Federal Credit Loan, so that those lenders with the liquidity they need to continue the funding of new roots and student loans. The law refers specifically to donors, in the current credit crisis, are not able to find investors on the secondary market to buy their portfolio of student loans.

In addition, with this current regime, but are always ready to find donors, are forced to their lending programs. It was not until July 28, the Brazos Higher Education Service SA on 26 and largest originator of student loans of Confederation in 2007, and funding of the authority of Education of Massachusetts, the largest issuers of student loans, people of Massachusetts, who both announced that it is no longer the situation, new or ongoing expense of student loans.

Since the suspension of the federal government and two private student loan programs to maintain all types of credit - whether large or small, for profit and non-profit, banks, non - banks and credit unions, loans and school-as-credit - students and their families who are borrowing less options for parents and student loans, they must pay the registration fees are bills that come due the next few weeks.

Two major lenders last victim of the Student Loan Crisis

The Brazos-group, first, a non-profit institutions of higher education loan, maintenance and financial support to other companies first announced that it would be at the Academy Federal Loan March. In May, however, after the government to ensure continued access to student loans Federal law began Brazos parent and student loans, which indicate that the Government of short-term liquidity plan extends the l organization, confidence in its ability to continue with student loans.

Brazos But surrender to education loan program late last month, with the constant turmoil of the student loan industry.

Executive Vice President Brazos Ellis Tredway said his organization simply “the period of time for everything in the village”, new student loans for the fall.

The Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, over 500 million dollars in loans to Massachusetts College 40000 College students and their families last year, already suspended from Federal Student Loan Program in April. Well, Mefa is based on the prize, not on private loans from the federal program, Massachusetts, students with student loans fixed rate private.

“While we continue to any possibility, the increased requirements for fixed interest rate private education loans is taking longer than expected and even more difficult,” said Tom Graf, Executive Director of Mefa.

Students view the precariousness of the switch Lenders

With more than 8 million students and parents on the federal appropriations College 2006-07, after the College Board, the number or families who are likely to be concerned by the persistence of the wave of departures donors this year is not.

Last week, financial assistance to officers of the Texas A & M University - a school with over 54,000 students - is composed of seven different lenders warning, so it is no longer capable of offering student loans of Confederation, a situation that has more than a few preferred borrower.

Dyneche Duffield, a student entering the head of Houston Baptist University, is uncomfortable with the prospect that, for a new relationship with a lender other than their local bank to offer more student loans early.

“I would have preferred, a credit somewhere where I do not know anyone,” said Duffield.

While students in May Duffield as yet able to directly obtain the Ministry of Education Federal Academy for loans or other lenders, which are still private student loans (with more stringent criteria, it is difficult to credits for qualifying students), the magnitude of the problem to students loans credit markets, and depth, it is applied, the College of loans is alarming for many administrators and officials in the field of education higher.

Kathryn Osmond, executive director of the Student Financial Services in Wellesley College in Massachusetts, with the situation as particularly significant Mefa a lasting and serious.

“An economy that is in such a spin, it is a place that Mefa critical,” said Osmond, is an economy that frightens me. “