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The Clark Howard Podcast

06.23.21 Student loan forgiveness for victims of fraudulent for-profit schools / The only safe way to buy event tickets.

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.64.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The law is finally being enforced against fraudulent for-profit student loan mills. Swindled students in debt can now receive loan forgiveness. Clark explains the role of colleges in excessive lending that impoverishes many parents, grandparents and graduates. // So many concert/sports tickets are bought through third-party brokers or ticket outlets. During Covid cancellations, many got little to no refunds. Beware buying this way. Buying legit can have huge markups. Clark tells you the only safe way to buy an event ticket. Ask Clark topics include: ConsumerFinance.gov - Submit a complaint / Target RedCard Credit Card Review: Earn 5% Back on Purchases / Wills & Funerals / How and Why to Refinance Your Mortgage: A Step-By-Step Guide / How to Build Credit / What Is a 403(b) and How Does It Work? / Fidelity Investments Review 2021: Pros & Cons \\ Want more money advice? Sign up for Clark’s free daily newsletter! Free Advice: Clark's Consumer Action Center Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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0:10.6

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0:21.1

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0:24.4

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0:31.2

Tim's applies such three business price promise.

0:36.7

It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show where our mission is to serve and how are you so you make better financial decisions in your life.

0:46.2

In today's episode, I have good news for you if you are one of the victims of for-profit schools that conned you and then shut down.

0:56.8

Also, as the world's opening up to live concerts and sporting events, you may find yourself paying huge fees.

1:05.9

I have some good news about competition on the horizon.

1:10.7

We have had a real marketplace incentive problem in the United States.

1:18.0

There are a lot of for-profit schools that recruit heavily on bad day time TV and bus shelters and things like that.

1:31.2

These schools work very aggressively to sign up students in what are known as student loan mills.

1:39.6

The purpose of signing these people up is just so they will borrow money under the federal student loan program or with private lenders so that they get this money for the school.

1:53.7

Whether or not the students, usually people 18 to 24, are not going to get an education maybe or not going to get a job from it.

2:06.0

There's been one school after another that have done bustouts or gone bust just straight broke that have left a trail of tears for so many Americans who were just trying to improve themselves and get a new skill to be able to qualify for a better paying job or career.

2:31.1

They got swindled. Well, there's a federal law to deal with that and the federal law was being ignored by the former education secretary Betsy DeVos.

2:43.6

If you're a long time listening to me, you've heard me talk about her not in a nice way and now the law is being followed.

2:52.4

And so if you were a student at a school where you feel or it's been in the news that they were defrauding students and you're stuck with federal student loans as a result.

3:07.6

You can now petition again for forgiveness some of the schools that were just verified is complete frauds.

3:17.8

You're in a position where you will actually just have your loans pretty much automatically discharged.

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