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June 17, 2016 by Gary Price

Updated Federal Student Aid Data Made Available Online by U.S. Dept. of Education

June 17, 2016 by Gary Price

From the U.S. Dept. of Education:

The U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid Office (FSA) today posted a series of updates to its data center, a collection of key performance data on the federal student aid portfolio. The updates, which continue the Department’s commitment to greater transparency on the federal student loan portfolio and other key financial aid metrics, include school district-level Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completion rates and the total fiscal year-to-date dollar amount recovered in defaulted student loans by guaranty agency and collection type.
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The FAFSA reports build on existing data on the number of public high school students completing their FAFSA forms, which is a key step in applying for college.
The report on guaranty agency collections provides the cumulative fiscal-year-to-date dollar amount recovered in defaulted student loans by guaranty agency and collection type. This monthly report complements the quarterly private collection agency recoveries report that FSA began posting in December 2015
In the coming weeks, FSA will release additional information about its postsecondary institution oversight responsibilities, including data on colleges that paid fines over the past five fiscal years for violating laws and regulations and historical data about institutions required to submit a letter of credit to continue participation in Title IV student aid programs during FY2013 and FY2014.
The Quarterly Student Aid report is a key part of the FSA Data Center, which was launched in 2009 to increase government transparency by proactively making available information that is useful to the public.
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Key Findings
Other key findings in the quarterly report include:
Enrollment in plans such as Income-Based Repayment (IBR), Pay As You Earn (PAYE), and Revised Pay As You Earn (REPAYE) is increasing, as the Department continues to expand income-driven repayment (IDR) options for borrowers. As of March 2016, nearly 4.9 million Direct Loan (DL) borrowers were enrolled in IDR plans, a 40 percent increase from March 2015 and a 117 percent increase from March 2014. Combined with those borrowers in the ED-held FFEL (Federal Family Education Loan program, approximately 5 million unique federally-serviced borrowers are enrolled in IDR plans.
Consistent with the trend observed last quarter, hardship deferments, delinquencies, and new defaults have decreased while IDR enrollment has increased. As of March 31, 2016, about 350,000 DL recipients were deferring their payments due to unemployment or economic hardship, a 28.6 percent decrease from the prior year.  In that same time period, there was a 36.6 percent decrease in the number of FFEL recipients in a deferment status due to unemployment or economic hardship.
The delinquency rate has experienced year-over-year decreases of 10.6 percent by recipient count and 8.3 percent by total dollar balance while the ED-held FFEL 31+ delinquency rate by total dollar balances decreased 10.4 percent from the same time period last year.
New defaults have slightly decreased as a percentage of recipients in repayment the previous quarter. During the most recent quarter (FY2016 Q2), about 276,000 borrowers or 1.8 percent of recipients who were in repayment last quarter entered default.  The percentage of new defaulters slightly decreased from the same time period last year, suggesting that borrowers are taking advantage of the flexibility federal student loan repayment plans offer.

 

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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