[JoeS21]

I would like to request a disability discharge for my student loans. I pay over $800 a month on a $1500 a month income. It has been possible for me to take online courses successfully at my own pace due to accommodation. Yet, I tried working twice and lost my job both times due to my medical and psychological conditions.

No matter how bad my health, I still dream of going to graduate school, even if I have to do so online. I worry that if I request a student loan discharge due to disability, that Navient will contact my professors which could worry them out of writing me letters of recommendation.

Does anyone know if Navient contacts professors?

[BeyondtheRainbow]

No. They just check your paperwork that you and your pdoc fill out and then for 3 years you send in a form that says you haven't made a certain amount of money (haven't worked at all? I don't remember which). After that your loan is completely gone unless you apply for a new one and at that point it would be restored.

They keep it very private.