New Jersey Statutes 18A:71A-35. Development, distribution of student loan repayment information document
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 18A:71A-35
- District: means a school district. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
- Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
- You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
- The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
- The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
- Higher education: means that education which is provided by any or all of the public institutions of higher education as herein defined and any or all equivalent private institutions. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
1. a. The Higher Education Student Assistance Authority shall develop a student loan repayment information document. The document shall include, but need not be limited to: examples of monthly and annual loan payments required for State, federal, and private student loans, whether subsidized or unsubsidized, based on various principal loan amounts and current interest rates; information on the time period it would take to fully repay those loans based on various loan repayment schedules; definitions of fixed rate loans, variable rate loans, and consolidation loans; and information on the consequences and penalties of defaulting on a student loan.
The authority shall: post the document on its website; transmit the document via electronic mail to each school district that includes grades 9 through 12 and nonpublic high schools by October 1 of each school year; and update the document as appropriate, but no less frequently than every five years.
b. A school district and a nonpublic high school shall annually disseminate the document developed pursuant to subsection a. of this section to each student in the 11th and 12th grades.
L.2013, c.1, s.1.