I have nearly XXXX in student loan debt with Navient, from loans that were originally taken out with XXXX XXXX, and then transferred to Navient without my consent when the company split. I am currently finishing my last year and a half at XXXX University, and am in school full time pursuing a XXXX degree, as well as working unpaid in a XXXX for needed experience to get into XXXX school. I am unable to work as much as is necessary due to the XXXX hours a week that are dedicated to school and XXXX work, not to mention the cost of living ( rent, bills, food, etc. ). Last year I made under XXXX, and still barely managed XXXX hours of sleep a night. 
I called Navient to ask if they could either lower the monthly payments, postpone them until after school, or put them in forbearance for at least a few months so that I could try to find a solution. I was told that they had no option for financial hardship, and I would either have to pay, or my account would go into default. What? XXXX XXXX, as awful as they are, at least have a program for financial hardship, that allows you to put your account into forbearance for a maximum of 12 months. The woman on the phone was not only rude, but then started lecturing me about how it should n't be so difficult to come up with the money, and that I could ask family and friends to just give it to me, and that my payment really was n't that much anyway. I explained that my rent is $ XXXX ( which is cheap in XXXX ), and that bills, food, etc. were already over what I was making, and that I was barely able to cover the basic minimum. She said : " Well there 's nothing I can do. You have to pay. I 'm going to end this call now. Call us back when you have the money. " Are you kidding me? The whole point of a student loan is to enable students to get the education they need in order to get a lucrative job in the long run. I will have a XXXX and XXXX in 5 years, with which I can get any number of high paying jobs. I have no intention of defaulting on my loans, and every intention of paying them back. How is it possible that a federally endorsed student loan company is both " unable '' and unwilling to help the very students that take out the loans with setting up a payment plan that is reasonable? Do they not realize that they will lose more money by forcing students to default on their loans rather than reducing their payments to make them affordable? How is this legal?