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A new report from the New York Federal Reserve revealed that while American credit card debt is decreasing, an increase Student loans leads to a drop in credit scores.
New York’s microeconomic data center has published a quarterly report that has shown that overall household debt increased by $ 167 billion – with a drop -down credit card debt of $ 29 billion. The report noted that the scheme for the decrease in credit cards debt is a typical seasonal model because consumers reimburse the holiday debt at the end of last year.
However, the report noted that the delinquency rate for student loans has increased from less than 1% to almost 8% after the end of the break in the declaration of delinquent student loans.
Student loan payments were interrupted from the start of the COVVI-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020 until September 2023, which helped delinquakes to decrease to less than 1%. When student loan payments have been resumed, decision -makers included a period of one year intended to prevent The missed payments of borrowers to be reported to credit offices. This expired in October 2024, the faults being included in credit reports in the first quarter of 2025.
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Student loans have increased since the end of a pandemic era of reporting a break. (Istock / Istock)
The report revealed that even if more than half of the newly delinquent borrowers already had a subprime credit dimensionsAbout 2.4 million borrowers who entered the delinquency this year had scores of more than 620 who could have allowed them to qualify for car and mortgage loans, as well as credit cards, before delinquency was reported.
There were 3.2 million borrowers whose scores were less than 620, representing 56.6% of the newly delinquent population. They saw their credit scores decrease an average of 74 points.
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The 2 million borrowers with scores between 620 and 719 represented 35.9% of the new delinquations, and their credit ratings dropped an average of 140 points. There were only 400,000 borrowers with credit scores above 720 who entered delinquency, which represents 7.5% of this group, and their scores decreased on average by 177 points.
Overall, more than 2.2 million student loans who entered the delinquency saw their credit ratings drop by more than 100 points, while more than a million have seen drops of at least 150 points.
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The credit ratings have decreased for borrowers of suffering student loans. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
The report revealed that seven states have a conditional student loan delinquency rate – which excludes borrowers who have no payment due – greater than 30%, including Mississippi (44.6%), Alabama (34.1%), Virginia -Western (34%), Kentucky (33.6%), Oklahoma (33.6%) Arkansas (33.5%) and Louisiana (31.8%).
At the end of the first quarter, more than 20 million federal borrowers for student loans were not in reimbursement and five million had a monthly zero dollar payment.
“After a five-year interruption, student loans have returned to the pre-countryic” normal “with more than 10% of the sales and around six million borrowers who have passed or in default,” wrote the New York Fed.
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He noted that the recovery process that resumed in May includes the “backpacking of wages, income statements and Social Security Payments. “”
“In addition, millions of borrowers are faced with strong decreases in their credit status, which will increase borrowing costs or seriously limit their access to credit such as mortgages and car loans”, the New York Fed Note, the addition of surveillance if these reimbursement problems will spread in other categories of consumer credit.
