Comment on FR Doc # 2026-09442
Andrew LinnSupportIndividual
Summary: The commenter, likely a representative of a loan servicer or financial institution, supports the proposed action but argues that the Department of Education should implement stricter "smart logic" and vetting processes. They request that the agency automatically reject forms that contain contradictory or insufficient information to reduce the administrative burden on institutions.
Please enforce some kind of smart logic to this form so that if someone says they have suffered monetary loss, but enters $0 or nothing and then submits, route the form to trash. Borrowers are using these forms to avoid repayment of their legally borrowed student loans. Institutions are spending countless hours reviewing and responding to what effectively never should've seen the light of day. It is hard to respond effectively to comments that contradict each other or do not provide sufficient information to form a response. In a nutshell, ED needs to either 1) start vetting these for quality OR 2) implement sufficient logic such that forms submitted without appropriate information are automatically denied.