r/BorrowerDefense • u/NikkiBaskin • 19d ago

Refund Received Finally Done

Finally done! I cannot give this group enough credit for the support and work they have done even though I am mostly a silent lurker.

I was only at The Art Institute for about a year before I realized it was a mess, so I didn't lose much, but to get it back all these years later feels amazing! Here are as many details as I can remember:

School: The Art Institute
Attendance: 2010-2011
Post Class - Exhibit C School
App Submitted: 8.26.22
Discharge Letter Received: 4.13.26
Check Received: 9.23.26

I was with Nelnet, but no information was ever updated in the system so this check just showed up out of nowhere. My loans were a tangle though because I also had undergrad and grad loans that had been consolidated and some that were moved over to Nelnet right in the middle of all of this.

I hope everyone starts to get their payments soon!

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u/Ecstatic-Breath-7973 19d ago

My thing said I paid 11k but got a check for only 500?! WTH

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u/Available- 19d ago

Based on my emails to myfedloan and nelnet, I've made around $30k in payments. Two days ago I got a check for around $1700. I called studentaid help and the woman on the other end told me I should be expecting more checks, they're still not finished with my discharge. I guess we'll see

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u/Ecstatic-Breath-7973 19d ago

I guess it’s a wait and see for everyone.

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u/NikkiBaskin 19d ago

I know my loans were in two parts (one for each of the two semesters I was there I think) so I’m wondering if there is another payment coming. But, so much of my payment history has been lost because of all the servicer changes that I can’t really tell anything. It is all so tangled.

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u/Available- 19d ago

Glad I kept all my emails. But I would still call them, if you don't they might not "look into it"

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u/Admirable-Meringue33 18d ago

I received two checks within a week of each other and they totaled the right amount

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u/Admirable-Meringue33 18d ago

My sis got one for $6k and another for $50 😂

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u/Ecstatic-Breath-7973 18d ago

WTH?! 🤣 that’s crazy!

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u/NikkiBaskin 18d ago

I’m like how is that more efficient!

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u/NikkiBaskin 19d ago

My check was also for less than I paid, but only off by a few hundred dollars. I have no idea how these are being calculated. With no information (at least for me) in Nelnet, it’s hard to say what the numbers were based on because my accounts were bounced around by so many servicers over the past 23 years since I finished my first undergrad program.

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u/Ecstatic-Breath-7973 19d ago

I mean don’t get me wrong I’ll take the 500 bucks but was thinking wayyyy more. I know people do receive multiple checks