{"id":3559,"date":"2022-05-05T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/?page_id=3559"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:42:02","slug":"federal-student-loan-repayment-and-exit-counseling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/types-of-aid\/education-loans\/federal-student-loan-repayment-and-exit-counseling\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Student Loan Repayment and Exit Counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exit Counseling for Borrowers of Federal Direct Student Loans<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a Federal Direct Student Loan borrower who is graduating, taking a leave of absence, or withdrawing from Bates, the U.S. Department of Education requires you to complete <a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.gov\/exit-counseling\/\"><strong>Exit Counseling<\/strong><\/a>. Exit Counseling provides you with important information about the repayment of your federal student loans. Completing this process will provide you with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Information about your rights and responsibilities regarding repayment of your federal student loan<\/li><li>How to locate your loan servicer and review amounts to be repaid<\/li><li>Loan deferment and loan forgiveness options<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.gov\/exit-counseling\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Exit Counseling is completed online through the U.S. Department of Education<\/strong><\/a>. Additional helpful resources can be found below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oPN2rpxCO0I\" target=\"_blank\">Exit Counseling Video<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/exit-counseling.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Direct Student Loan Exit Counseling Guide<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liveandworkinmaine.com\/opportunity-maine\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maine Educational Opportunity Tax Credit<\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Loan Servicing Information for Federal Perkins Loan Borrowers<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/grants-scholarships-loans\/loan-servicing-information-for-federal-perkins-loans-borrowers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loan servicing FAQs<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/heartland.ecsi.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ECSI Contact Information<\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exit Counseling for Borrowers of Federal Direct Student Loans If you are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"parent":420,"menu_order":-3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-3559","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3570,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3559\/revisions\/3570"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}