Student Loan Seek Free Counseling to Pay Down Debt

NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- Access to free student loan counseling would have alleviated some of Alton Strange's turmoil in 2008 when he was laid off during the financial crisis and sought a temporary reprieve on his student loan payments. Strange, who now works at a Madison, Wis. education outreach nonprofit, would have taken advantage of free counseling as he sought to find an amenable solution to one of his graduate student loans that could not be deferred. Although he received an extensive ex...