<p>Is there a student loan crisis, ie, are student loans now hard to get? Here is a list I got by researching the Texas student loan pages of lenders who are either temporarily or permanently suspending their FFELP loans:</p>
<p>[Updated</a> List Of Lenders Changing Loan Practices](<a href=“http://www.nasfaa.org/publications/2008/rsuspensions030408.html]Updated”>http://www.nasfaa.org/publications/2008/rsuspensions030408.html)</p>
<p>PHEAA is on the list. On their site they say they are partnering with a bunch of (gasp) banks (!) to help ease the crunch on students. If Nikki’s right and the feds can at most absorb an additional 20% of capacity then perhaps it was a serious mistake to put the squeeze on the nonprofits. Oops.</p>