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Student Loans Is It a Crisis?

Financial Education in Oklahoma: Navigating the Changing World of Consumer Credit Education Debt: Is It a Crisis

November 7, 2012 Oklahoma City, OK

Kelly D. Edmiston

(with Lara Brooks and Steven Shepelwich)

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

The views in this presentation are those of the speaker and authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City or the Federal Reserve System.

Student Loans Overview and Issues

• Growth in Student Loan Lending
• Student Burden, the Capacity to Repay, and

Delinquency

• Fiscal Impact
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Outstanding Student Loan Debt

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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

0.904 $0.0 $0.1 $0.2 $0.3 $0.4 $0.5 $0.6 $0.7 $0.8 $0.9 $1.0 $0.0 $0.1 $0.2 $0.3 $0.4 $0.5 $0.6 $0.7 $0.8 $0.9 $1.0 2003 2004 2005 2,006 2,007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

$trillions $trillions

Growth in Student Loan Lending

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Source: The College Board, Trends in Student Aid $0 $10 $20 $30 $40 $50 $0 $10 $20 $30 $40 $50 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

$2010 Billions

Unsubsidized Stafford Subsidized Stafford Other Federal Nonfederal

$2010 Billions

Outstanding Student Loan Debt

• Most of increase coming from increased number of

borrowers – increases in average debt is moderate

– Largely driven by enrollments – Moderate increase in share who borrow – Fairly substantial increase in average debt in past year (Equifax)

• What is the issue?

– Borrower capacity to repay / burden – Fiscal burden

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Capacity to Repay / Burden

Individual Student Loan Debt Statistics (First Qtr, 2012)

• Median $13,662; Average $24,218

– 25% under $5,977 – 25% over $29,155

• > 3% with debt over $100,000
• 0.5% over $200,000
• 40% of borrowers under 30 (1/3 over 40)

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Sources: Authors’ calculations using data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Consumer Credit Panel; Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Capacity to Repay / Burden

Credit Profile of Student Loan Borrowers

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Profile of Student Loan Borrower Credit Conditions, First Quarter, 2012

Student Loan Borrowers Non-Student Loan Borrowers Credit Item Average Median First Quartile Third Quartile Average Median First Quartile Third Quartile Student Loan Debt $24,218 $13,662 $5,977 $29,155 n/a n/a n/a n/a Total Debt 82,994 24,576 6,608 106,027 $66,227 $3,522 $0 $68,440 Consumer Debt /*/ 31,883 17,999 5,500 41,097 13,084 1,379 13,850 Revolving Debt 6,888 644 4,470 7,703 283 3,349 Credit Score 626 696 /*/ Total debt less first mortgage.

Source: Authors’ calculations using data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax

Student Loan Delinquency

(share of outstanding loans)

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Sources: Authors’ calculations using data from the Federal Reserve Bank

• f New York Consumer Credit Panel

NY Fed: 27% delinquency in repayment

Issues Driving Delinquency

• Recession and Recovery

– Younger hit hard

• Peak unemployment 17.1 percent (Apr 2010)
• Underemployment
• Slower wage and salary growth
• AP: 50% unemployed/underemployed
• Noncompletion

– Better prospects for completers – Especially high for for-profit

• No credit consideration
• Poor borrower information
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Fiscal Impact

• Accrual-based budgeting

– NPV (incl disbursements, subsidies, payments) – Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA, 1990) method – Federal Government Costs using FCRA

• FY2011: -$47.3b
• FY2012: -$34.3b (est.)
• FY 2013: -$32.2b (proposed)

– Updates – vs. fair-value

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Fiscal Impact

• Accrual-based budgeting (cont)

– Fair-value estimates

• CBO: 11 percent of disbursements
• Implies $13.3b (+$3b consolidation)
• Indirect

– Greater income  tax revenues; lower costs – Interest deductions

• Outlook

– Not expected to see much higher default rates – Could see continued rapid increases in borrowing – Reform options

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Contact Information:

Kelly D. Edmiston Senior Economist Community Development 1 Memorial Drive Kansas City, MO 64198 (816) 881-2004 Kelly.edmiston@kc.frb.org