I recieved the following note from a borrower fed up with HESAA’s poor track record with “customer service” and overall chicanery with (let’s say this together) *our* money. His name is Robert Rusczek and his blog post about HESAA is an open letter to his state legislator. https://medium.com/@RRuszczyk/an-open-letter-to-nj-legislators-about-nj-class-loans-e19e1e9434d0 Here is Read more
I think Teresa Gervasio, head of HESAA student services, has some ‘splainin’ to do. Why wasn’t this borrower informed of her right to a hardship deferral after she explained to a HESAA rep that she couldn’t make her monthly payment? “Ask your parents for money” is not a proper response Read more
Dear Friends of HESAA Hell, You know you are burning and not just because it’s the summer. Some of you have the dead weight of HESAA loans to contend with and it won’t just go away. It’s time to speak out, if only on an anonymous internet blog. It’s your Read more
Below are comments from a borrower who found me on Change.org, I removed all the location details. Please visit: https://www.change.org/petitions/state-senator-steve-sweeney-investigate-hesaa#share Sign the petition! Let’s get the ball rolling. ——————————– I currently owe HESAA over $134,000, over the course of 30 years, at an interest rate of 8.3%. I’m currently paying Read more
I had the opportunity to converse with this HESAA borrower not too long ago. This story shows clearly that the loan sharks behind HESAA really don’t care about your life, just enslaving you to debt for as long as they can make a profit. Someday this is going to change Read more
This came in from a HESAA borrower who was tired of being bullied by this agency who supposedly works on behalf of us. We don’t have to let them get away with this. Time to organize the fight back.———-I am a fellow Hesaa Hell inductee. Upon graduation i was unable Read more
So since starting this blog I realize it is going to be an uphill climb finding out all the information on HESAA. They aren’t necessarily a transparent state run loan sharking scheme, but I’m *going* to find something on them that I think deserves attention and is worth exposing in the media.I’m also Read more
Below you will find the text of a petition I started today on Change.org. Please sign when you get a chance: State Senator Steve Sweeney: Investigate HESAA! Due to overwhelming evidence from borrowers, the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority or HESAA has been harassing and intimidating students who are in Read more
In the course of researching HESAA for this new blog I quickly discovered that they have been caught red handed making millions in kick backs from Sallie Mae in return for steering students toward this for-profit lender, when they could have been sending people to the less expensive public loan Read more
Ok, on to my second post and I’ve only just opened up shop here. Check these out: Ever notice that the HESAA-NJCLASS bill gives you a much smaller payment window than other bills? Maybe it’s a coincidence? When I spoke with a HESAA representative about the fact that the “billing Read more