Deferment

Section 682.210 – Deferment

The proposed regulations would allow schools that participate in the FFEL Program to grant deferments based upon information from a Perkins Loan holder or from the Department of Education instead of requiring the borrower to provide a duplicate request for deferment to multiple loan holders. As a result, burden for the borrowers and loan holders would decrease.

A total of 41,700 Perkins, FFEL and Direct Loan borrowers were granted a non-in-school deferment in Award Year 2006 and received loans with more than one loan holder.

41,700 borrowers granted non-in-school deferment with multiple holders

X .25 hours projected amount of decreased burden per borrower

10,425 hours total number of hours of decreased burden

For 2007-2008: # %

Total projected # of Perkins Loan Program awards 501,000 .03

Total projected # of FFEL Program awards 12,483,000 .78

Total projected # of Direct Loan Program awards 3,039,000 . 19

Total # of Title IV projected loans 16,023,000 1.00

Total Burden Reduction for the FFEL Loan Program:

10,425 total hours of burden reduction

X .78 percentage of all projected loans as FFEL

8,132 total # of hours of decreased burden in the FFEL Program

Affected Entities:

The amount of burden reduction is split between borrowers and loan holders. The majority of the burden reduction is provided to the borrowers since they will not have to complete and submit additional, duplicative deferment requests.

Entity: % of burden hours of burden = total hours of

reduction reduction reduction

BORROWERS: .9 8,132 7,319

LOAN HOLDERS: .1 8,132 813 8,132

Respondents, Responses and Burden Hours:

# of Respondents # of Responses # Hrs/Response #Hrs

Burden

32,526 32,526 .25 = 8,132