Disbursement update

I know there’s a lot of uncertainty and fear right now, and it’s not being helped that as far as I can tell, the vast majority of student loan borrowers will have had a disbursement in January and won’t have another for several months so don’t have a lot to go off of in terms of anecdotal evidence going forward (please correct me if I’m wrong here).

My university is on a later schedule than most in the states, and my disbursement date was today. I got an email just now confirming that it has come through, exactly as planned. I’m using the loan at a school outside the US, which means the financial aid office has literally no allegiance to the government and have been very forthright about everything that’s been happening. Up until the loans arrived they received absolutely no communication except what seemed like a template email to expect ‘unnecessary spending’ to be cut, DEI to be removed, blah blah blah. Apparently the funds were actually sent a day or two early, which has never happened before — I’m unsure what might have prompted that except maybe somebody as the DoE seeing the writing on the wall and rushing it through before Musk could seize their systems.

We’re not out of the woods yet, and theres no guarantee at all that this will be the case for others. But hopefully it can be helpful to start to gather info about what’s happening on the disbursement side of things.