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Is this a private or federal loan? What you are asking is not very clear.
With federal loans, sallie mae filed a default claim with your guarantor. Their tradeline is zero'd out but the negative line remains.
Any update on this? I just pulled my credit report and the exact same thing has happened to me. NOT a pleasant surprise to see you have 50k instead of 24k Student Loan debt - to top it off, for some reason a couple are showing $5000 as the limit but an amount OVER that borrowed, so even though I'm in deferment, it's showing a 109% debt to available ratio!
I consolidated my SL's in early 2008 and (dumb, I know) just checked my credit report now because I was confused on why I was getting letters about "too many lines of credit" on 2 of my credit cards.
Weirdly, Experian seems to be mostly updated (ie, shows them as 'paid/transferred'), but Equifax and Transunion's records are just frightening.
Has anyone had success getting this stuff fixed? Did it help your score? I'm guessing 109% is uh NOT a good number on installment loans. And I'd paid off my car! Grumble.