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- Path: sparky!uunet!computer-privacy-request
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:56:22 -0500 (EST)
- From: "Dave Niebuhr, BNL CCD, 516-282-3093" <NIEBUHR@bnlcl6.bnl.gov>
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: Re: Sallie Mae and SSNs
- Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.119.3@pica.army.mil>
- Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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- I wrote:
-
- > >The problem is that Sallie Mae uses my SSN, not my daughter's, as
- > >the account number. I called Sallie Mae and the person on the
- > >other side stated that he couldn't do anything about it and that
- > >I should address a letter to his supervisor (naturally).
-
- David Ruggiero <osiris@halcyon.halcyon.com> wrote:
-
- >Depends on the type of student loan. If this was a "PLUS" loan, it's
- >actually issued to your daughter but guaranteed by you, the parent.
- >In this case, SallieMae having *your* SSN makes pretty good sense.
- >
- >If, however, it was another kind of loan ("Stafford", "GSL", "SLS", etc.),
- >this isn't as easy to see. It could be that they want *your* number to
- >make it easier to find *her* current address if she later defaults on
- >the loan (parents usually being more stable and easier to trace than their
-
- Not quite accurate. I have two student loans, one a PLUS for one daughter
- which I am paying half for and the account number in no way resembles my SSN
- and neither does her account number (1/2 and 1/2 split). Sallie Mae didn't
- even enter into this transaction.
-
- The other one, the Sallie Mae, was originally given by Teachers
- Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA) and placed on the secondary
- market where Sallie Mae picked it up for servicing. I don't remember
- it being a PLUS loan, though.
-
- Therefore, if both are PLUS loans, why does one financial institution
- use my SSN as an account number and the other doesn't? To be fair,
- though, the first one wasn't placed on the secondary market.
-
- Dave
- Dave Niebuhr Internet: niebuhr@bnl.gov / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
- Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 (516)-282-3093
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