What is the most common complaint against Student Assistance Foundation?

The most common issue consumers report about Student Assistance Foundation is "Communication tactics", specifically "Frequent or repeated calls". This is based on 5 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Student Assistance Foundation increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Student Assistance Foundation are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Student Assistance Foundation's reputation grade?

Student Assistance Foundation has a reputation grade of B (score: 72.3/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Student Assistance Foundation respond to consumer complaints?

Student Assistance Foundation has a 80% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Student Assistance Foundation operate?

Student Assistance Foundation has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 4 states, with the most complaints from California (2 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Student Assistance Foundation - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 4 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Communication tactics

2
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

2
Disclosure verification of debt

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record student-assistance-foundation Student Assistance Foundation

Grade B · 5 CFPB filings · 80% timely · lead issue: Communication tactics · vol #3236 · compose #1089

VOL 5
GRADE B
12MO 0
STATES 4
TIMELY 80%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Communication tactics
RANK #3,236
COMPOSE #1,089

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Aaron Worldwide Collections Inc. (5 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Student Assistance Foundation's 5 CFPB complaints sit next to Aaron Worldwide Collections Inc. on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

40.0% of Student Assistance Foundation's CFPB filings land in California

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Student Assistance Foundation is volume #3,236 but composite #1,089, while California dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: California 40.0%; 2 of 5 filings · 4 states touched
Spike month: 2013-11 20.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,236 volume; #1,089 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,147 places better than volume

How does Student Assistance Foundation compare to its peers?

How does STUDENT ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

STUDENT ASSISTANCE FOU… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

80%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2013-11 2019-05

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Communication tactics	2
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	2
Disclosure verification of debt	1

Where do complaints against Student Assistance Foundation come from?

Student Assistance Foundation's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

California

2
Arizona

1
Florida

1
Michigan

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Student Assistance Foundation: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 5.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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