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Sallie Mae Has No Idea Where Your $1500 Is

Heidi writes:
I recently completed a 3 year enlistment with the US Army, and one of my benefits was the student loan repayment program. The Army paid off my student loans, 1/3 of the loan per year for three years, making payments directly to my lender, the infamous Sallie Mae. The first two payments were a month or two later than the Army said they would be, but still, free money, and I made the small in-between payments to keep the account current.

Then I finished my enlistment, was honorably discharged, and waited for the last payment to come in. It was 4 months late and when it got there (mid-December), it looked like it was $1500 MORE than what was left owed on my account. I called the Army and they confirmed that they had payed the correct amount they owed me, taking interest into account. The overpayment belongs to me. Yay, more free money!
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8:03 AM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Ben Popken
8,333 views, 40 comments

Latest by n/a: I spoke to a SM CSR yesterday, and the first person I spoke to only was able to answer one more »

taking it seriously

The Army Corps Of Engineers Is Taking Your Hurricane Katrina Lawsuits Seriously

WHO: The Army Corps Of Engineers
WHAT: The Army Corps Of Engineers has been sued 489,000 times over the damage from levees that broke during Hurricane Katrina. Of those 489,000 lawsuits, 247 of them are for at least 1 billion dollars, and one of them is for $3,014,170,389,176,410. ($3 quadrillion-ish.)
WHERE: Katrina's victims ask for huge checks [Yahoo!]
THE QUOTE: "'It's important to the person who filed it, so we're taking every single claim seriously,' Corps spokeswoman Amanda Jones said." More »

11:54 AM on Thu Jan 10 2008
By Meg Marco
2,711 views, 55 comments

Latest by azntg: Hey guys! Hello from St. Bernard Parish, the adjacent parish to New Orleans. It's quite different from New York City more »

arm outrage missiles

Sprint Cancels Army Unit's Cellphones For Roaming Too Much

Sprint canceled the service of 200 Army men and women who had just come back from Iraq. For roaming too much. Because Sprint hadn't installed a tower close enough to their base. A little ol' backwoods place called West Point. More »

10:21 PM on Mon Jul 9 2007
By Ben Popken
8,050 views, 35 comments

salvation army

ThisIsDumb: 6.5 Foot High Clothes Hooks

At a Salvation Army Thrift Store, in Salem NH, the hooks in the changing room are 6.5 feet off the ground. More »

12:37 AM on Thu Jan 4 2007
By Ben Popken
501 views, 32 comments

bellringers

Target: Internet Bell Ringing Only, Please

According to the Chicago Sun-Times:
"Target Corp.'s policy of prohibiting Salvation Army bell ringers on its property will remain in force this Christmas season, but the Minneapolis-based retailer said Tuesday it will donate $1 million to launch an online version of the Salvation Army's Angel Tree program.
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11:34 AM on Thu Nov 16 2006
By Meg Marco
103 views, 18 comments

Latest by pronell: I'll go one better than AcilettaM and onrampofframp. If David Blaine escapes, I will personally hang 100 needy children. You more »

samsung a920

Samsung A920's Continuing Trials: Video & Pix

So you may have noticed posts stopped around 12:30 today. That's because after taking our blog union mandated lunch break, we noticed a gorgeous day out the window. So we took our bike and did a buncha laps around Prospect Park. When we exited Grand Army Plaza, we found about 50 cop cars lined up, ready to perform some kind of neat coordinated operation. More »

6:51 PM on Fri Aug 11 2006
By Ben Popken
114 views, 5 comments

Latest by homerjay: Good God! If there was ever a use for the ACLU (an organization that I loathe) the guy in that more »

army

So You've Decided To Join The Army Just To Cancel Your Cellphone

We've noted that one "tactic" to leave your cellphone is joining the armed services, and Davros, a former cellphone call rep sent in some rockets red glare to illuminate the particulars. More »

12:56 PM on Thu Jul 27 2006
By Ben Popken
5,326 views, 2 comments

top

Hipster Swiss Army Knives

The glorious Swiss Army Knife. The tool that makes us more human. Could this Could this piece of flawless design be made any more perfect? More »

5:49 PM on Mon Jun 26 2006
By Ben Popken
131 views, 3 comments

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Pith & Vinegar; Irony Available in 26 New Colors

• Hope they boned up on their nighttime maneuvers. [WOAI]
• Stay inside this summer and get free books from Barnes & Noble, just for reading. It's a dark spiral of increasing literacy. [NoOnesHome]
• When the president of the cruise ship company comes forward to apologize, does he have a funny little admiral's hat and epaulets? [CruiseCritic]
• Usually its the airlines that stink too much to fly, not the passengers. [Ananova]
• Digg users rush to fill AOL's Digg ripoff with stories about AOL's Digg ripoff, inadvertently swelling the member list AOL can tout to advertisers in the process. [Valleywag]

8:57 PM on Fri Jun 16 2006
By Ben Popken
38 views, 1 comment

Latest by AcidReign: .....Well, I've said it before, and I'll say it again: AOL email does work well, and doesn't execute HTML out more »

army

Army Knowledge Online Addresses Veteran ID Theft

In addition to mass mailing a percentile point of rain forest to every veteran in America, the US Military's intranet site Army Knowledge Online posted a letter today warning all active soldiers that their identities were already threading through the Internet like tapeworms, just looking for a Russian hacker to attach themselves parasitically to. Or maybe it's vice versa. More »

5:39 PM on Fri Jun 9 2006
By consumerist.com
86 views, 1 comment

Latest by RandomHookup: Considering most of us in the military grew up in an era when our SSN and DOB were posted on more »

brands

Why Doesn't the Military Sell Official Issue Clothing?

It is the season, or a little past, to purchase warm, blandly-designed cold weather gear. As we've shop for long underwear, pea coats, and arctic camo, we wondered: Why doesn't the U.S. Military have its own brand of clothing? More »

11:27 AM on Mon Dec 12 2005
By consumerist.com
716 views, 7 comments