AmeriTech Financial

Ameritech told me that under the Public Service zlian Forgiveness program that my monthly payments made for 10 years would result in student loan forgiveness but the fees they have collected from me have not gone towards my student loan payments. I want my money back.

I was advised by Great Lakes back in late January of 2018 that due to my zero dollar payment plan with them, I was being scammed out of a monthly fee of $173.00 from Ameritech Financial/RAM. I called Ameritech Financial to end any dealings I had with them and informed my bank of the siruation. I opened up a claim dispute with my bank on AM. A couple of months later my bank informed me that they had to side with Ameritech due to the bogus documents they provided with my signature. I was under the assumption that Ameritech Financial was consolidating my loans, they courted me for little over a year to consolidate my loans. So naturally I thought they were performing a service. THEY DID NOTHING! AND GOT PAID FOR IT. Low and behold, I was already under contract with Great Lakes since August of 2017. Great Lakes is, an authentic company that branches out from the Department of Education. AMERITECH FED ME LIES AND BS JUST TO OBTAIN PASSAGE TO MY CHECKING ACCOUNT EVERY MONTH. They took advantage of me, who at the time was someone who was trying to pick up the pieces of my life and get them back on track after losing a parent to cancer. The final statement from Great Lakes and the Department of Education is that this company (Ameritech Financial) did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR ME, AND IS JUST SITTING BACK COLLECTING FEES FROM MY ACCOUNT. Shame on them.

I. Am so disappointed with Ameritech. I feel as though I was told one thing when I signed up and another situation has happened.
I am just figuring out this scam as I needed to find information on my student loans to complete my taxes.
I was under the impression that Ameritech would be working with my student loan companies to lower my payment. My payment is super high and it is hard for me to pay that much every month. They keep asking me for my pay stubs and other documents, when I have sent them several times. Long story short, Ameritech has been taking $99 out of my bank account every month for almost a year and none of it is going towards my student loans. This just makes me sick. I would like all of my $$$ returned to me immediately. I also need these payments stoped asap, if this doesnt happen immediately I will be contacting a lawyer and the Revdex.com. I feel that I have been robbed of my hard earned money and have made no gains in paying of my student loans. Thank you

This third party company contacted me saying they would be able to pay down my student loans and once I gave them my information to help me get registered they transferred me to a different third party company to handle the loan payments. Upon calling FedLoan I was notified that this company was a scam and that I was advised to discontinue my transaction with all the third party companies.

I am in a re-payment plan with the U.S. Department of Education. A company , Ameritech Financial, sent me an email last year, I began paying an amount of $82.00 per month based on my income. The amount has been paid for exactly one year in January 2018. Each month I receive from Great Lakes, who is the service provider from the Department of Education that shows a zero balance of re-payment. I recently compared the information from Ameritech to the information I received from Great Lakes, and came to the conclusion, that I should not paying another business any monies at all, I received an email requesting my password and login information, but when I selected Forgot Password, nothing happened. I then called Ameritech and got the runaround about the password. This went on for a few weeks. So, I asked to speak to a Supervisor on January 25, and was told that I could not speak to anyone at the time and was given a call back date for Wednesday, February 31, to talk with someone, not necessarily a Supervisor. That's when a few Red Flags showed up. I wasn't receiving answers to my questions, always speaking to a different person when I called.

I received a post card from them with a picture of me on it. It is weird and scary at the same time. I never signed up for them and I refuse. You do not do this of this nature. Not sure where the picture came from

I recieved a mail flyer from this company. Upon further investigation I found that the company placed one of my social media pictures on the front of the flyer which includes a minor. I do not appreciate this kind of marketing tactic. I find it strange and rude. For this reason I would not pursue buisness with this company. I feel like they stalked me. This company needs to rethink their marketing tactics.

I received a solicitation in the mail today from this company. It was a postcard offering to have my student loans forgiven. The photo on the card was a man wearing mirrored glasses. In those mirrors reflecting back at me was a photo of myself and my daughter. I called the company to tell them this is not ok and to remove me from their mailing list. I feel this is a gross invasion of privacy and told them so. Any company taking photos of people off the internet to use in marketing is not a legitimate one.

I agreed to the services with the understanding that my loans would be worked on and lowered for repayment. For one year they had my account in deferment for a majority of the time and after an agreed upon amount was set to start my repayment I only received information from the loan servicer to state my repayment amount. The following month my payments went up nearly $1,300.00. When I called (called almost every single month) to have them look into the account I was so frustrated with having to reach out every month I took it upon my self to contact my loan servicer to find out what happened. Where I was told I was placed into a different agreement. When I called the company back I was given a list of "issues" with the loan servicer, including that they are being investigated. Prior to this last time I had called and requested not to have them help and I was assured everything would be handled and fixed to my satisfaction. It was not done and I am no longer willing to work with them as they continue to charge me a monthly fee.

This company contacted via phone and mail claiming that they could help with lowering my monthly student loan payment. Their employee mistakenly took my already consolidated loan and re-consolidated to combine a very small amount of $2000 in loans to the large already consolidated loan. In doing so she basically cancelled out all my prior loan payments that counted towards the 120 consecutive payments I have to make for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, which means she set me back in my loan forgiveness by 4 years. Instead of only having to pay loans for 6 more years I basically had to start over for a 10 year re-payment because of her stupid and uninformed actions. Prior to taking this action I asked them several times over phone if my previous loan payments towards PSLF would be affected and they said no. They did not refund me my loan payments nor could they correct their mistake. They admitted their mistake on the phone but otherwise there was no way for me to recover the time I had lost in loan re-payment. These people do not know what they are doing with student loans so do not trust them.

I was assisted by Leah *** last night and she was very helpful and kind and caring.I am so thankful I chose Ameritech to help with my student loans.

Since I have been working with Ameritech, my students loans have been very well-managed. The staff is always courteous and very helpful. I'm glad I decided to do business with them!

Everything has been great! I look forward to settling my student debt through Ameritech.

Very Positive

I signed up the agreement in August 2016. Contributing $173 per month for more than a year to pay my federal student loan. But in fact none of payments went towards my loans , they kept it for their service fee. Called customer service and they insisted that I don’t provide all the document for them to sumbimite my student forgiveness request. How can they keep charging me while doing nothing to help me? I felt I was scamed,. will looking for a lawyer to get refund !

Helped a lot thank u!!!

I'm a new customer but so far my experience has been wonderful. Everyone I've dealt with has been very friendly and helpful!

So far I have found Amertech very helpful and genuine. However, I have am still "skeptical" because I have been "scamed" before by Student Loan Companies

This company is remarkable! They are so reliable, responsible, and you never have to guess what they are or aren’t doing! They are 100% customer service! I’m glad they are handling my business and keep me updated on everything, even if it’s for a small silly question on my account. They want me to be fully aware of all transactions and be satisfied! I’d recommend them to anyone!

This company contacted me this year regarding forgiveness of a portion of my student loans. I signed up, was told that a portion of my loan would be forgiven and made payments for months. A few months ago, I received info from another company, stating that they are the current servicer and that I owed the same amount that I owed before I paid this third party company to forgive a portion of my loan. So, basically, I paid into a scam for months, and received no loan forgiveness as promised. I feel that this company should pay the funds paid to them back to me as I paid them for months for nothing at all.