Editorial

HELB to take legal action against loan defaulters

PublishedApril 13, 2022

The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has started taking defaulters with over 10 years of arrears to court to recover billions owed in student loans.

According to HELB CEO Charles Ringera, the government resolved to sue about 109,000 debt defaulters that have not serviced their loans for almost a decade. Ringera added that the board has already filed cases against five defaulters. The five were among seven that the board had targeted earlier.

HELB takes extreme measures against defaulters who don’t service their loans after a decade. The new move is to help the board collect at least Ksh 4.9 billion of the amount in default.

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The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has now threatened to publish the namesand photos of 85,000 student loan defaulters in a desperate bid to compel themto pay up. Those who are not servicing their loans have been asked to get intouch with the board in the next 30 days or get published in lo…

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The loans board liaises with bodies such as the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and exchanges data with them to track the activities of the beneficiaries and get them to pay their loans.

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