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I saw the news that PHEAA (FedLoan Seevicing) is no longer going to service federal loans. Is there anyone out there who has had servicers change right before, or during, the award period? If so, in your experience, is there anything those of us with loans handled by FedLoan Servicing should do or archive before the switch? This is worrying so close to the award announcements!
 
PhDebt said:
I saw the news that PHEAA (FedLoan Seevicing) is no longer going to service federal loans. Is there anyone out there who has had servicers change right before, or during, the award period? If so, in your experience, is there anything those of us with loans handled by FedLoan Servicing should do or archive before the switch? This is worrying so close to the award announcements!
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save documentation of every single payment
wums07 said:
Still waiting for any updates on my NHLBI renewal. Application status on portal just says "submitted" still. Have assumed at this point that I did not get funded this time ...
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same wums07. I don't know anyone else with a NHLBI renewal. Would be good to know if someone has heard positive news
 
PhDebt said:
I saw the news that PHEAA (FedLoan Seevicing) is no longer going to service federal loans. Is there anyone out there who has had servicers change right before, or during, the award period? If so, in your experience, is there anything those of us with loans handled by FedLoan Servicing should do or archive before the switch? This is worrying so close to the award announcements!
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save every single statement and every single bank account statement. Your bank can send you all of them in a batch if you just call going back farther than what is available to you online
 
keep.on.keeping.on said:
Oh wow, how exciting!!! Maybe its too early to start keeping a running list, but I'm hoping they keep on rolling in across the next several weeks so here it is anyway;

Reward Decision notice 2020 cycle:
-07/01: NCATS CR (renewal)
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Randomly logged in and my status switched to funded!!!! No email yet. NIAAA CR (new). Also saw one on twitter for NIGMS CR today.

Reward Decision notice 2020 cycle:
-07/01: NCATS CR (renewal)
-07/18: NIGMS CR
-07/19: NIAAA CR (new)
 
Quick update- I got my email this morning so it looks like there is a ~48-hour delay from when the application portal is updated. I went ahead and logged in to my awardee portal after seeing my funding status change just to confirm. If anyone else wants to do that, it's your email address and your application # for the app as the password. Good luck everyone, I hope you all hear good news very soon!
 
Peds- NHLBI (new) changed to funded in the portal 7/27/21.

I refinanced/consolidated a few of my loans 5 years ago, which made the financial review pretty difficult. I didn't get everything approved until last week. Future applicants may want to start requesting documents at the time of application instead of waiting for selection. I ended up filing a CFPB complaint to get some of the documents from one of the servicers that kept giving me the run around. It seemed to help get the ball moving. Just adding this in case it's helpful to someone in the future.

Good luck to everyone still waiting. Quite a long (and emotionally taxing) process!
 
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Congrats, you guys!!! How exciting! Here is a running list of all decisions thus far:

Reward Decision notice 2020 cycle:
-07/01: NCATS CR (renewal)
-07/18: NIGMS CR
-07/19: NIAAA CR (new)
-07/27: NHLBI Peds (new)
-07/28: NIDA CR (renewal)
 
resistantbug said:
Peds- NHLBI (new) changed to funded in the portal 7/27/21.

I refinanced/consolidated a few of my loans 5 years ago, which made the financial review pretty difficult. I didn't get everything approved until last week. Future applicants may want to start requesting documents at the time of application instead of waiting for selection. I ended up filing a CFPB complaint to get some of the documents from one of the servicers that kept giving me the run around. It seemed to help get the ball moving.

Good luck to everyone still waiting. Quite a long (and emotionally taxing) process!
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I'm sorry to hear that you had to deal with that struggle in terms of your financial docs but it was so worthwhile! Congratulations on your funding!!!
 
drgene said:
Yes but I can't see anything after logging in. (i.e. no application history or tracking, or anything really)
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Yikes, this is happening to me too! It worked fine this morning, but now switched to ASSIST and i can't see my application status anymore. This is really throwing a wrench in my compulsive status checking.
 
drgene said:
Yes but I can't see anything after logging in. (i.e. no application history or tracking, or anything really)
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Same for me, I can't find any history of my application. Somewhere in the past years of this thread a similar thing happened but I can't pull it up easily. I think the website ultimately went back to normal but I'll keep digging to see if I can find exactly what happened
 
PhDebt said:
Same for me, I can't find any history of my application. Somewhere in the past years of this thread a similar thing happened but I can't pull it up easily. I think the website ultimately went back to normal but I'll keep digging to see if I can find exactly what happened
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Try this, it took me to that second screen and allowed me to log in:

oas.lrp.nih.gov/oasuser
 
My NICHD application status just switched to FUNDED! Hooray! First time applicant, clinical research, extramural. Just waiting to get that official email now. Seems like the decisions are coming in hot today! Here is the current tally of announced results;

Reward Decision notice 2020 cycle:
-07/01: NCATS CR (renewal)
-07/18: NIGMS CR
-07/19: NIAAA CR (new)
-07/27: NHLBI Peds (new)
-07/28: NIDA CR (renewal)
-07/29: NINDS and NIAMS (twitter)
-07/30: NHGRI Peds, NIEHS, NIA (new and renewal), NICHD CR (new)
 
My NICHD HD (mentored) new application switched to funded! I applied as a postdoc, but just accepted a TT position at a different institution. Does anybody know if i can change institutions ? does the change in institutions have implications for the lrp award?
 
imnotthatkindofdr said:
My NICHD HD (mentored) new application switched to funded! I applied as a postdoc, but just accepted a TT position at a different institution. Does anybody know if i can change institutions ? does the change in institutions have implications for the lrp award?
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You’ll be totally fine not a big deal as long as you’re still meeting the research time commitment!
 
imnotthatkindofdr said:
My NICHD HD (mentored) new application switched to funded! I applied as a postdoc, but just accepted a TT position at a different institution. Does anybody know if i can change institutions ? does the change in institutions have implications for the lrp award?
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Congrats on the TT position!! From what I've seen, changing institutions with the LRP should be pretty straightforward, but the only tricky part is if your research plan or topic greatly shifts. This might happen if your new position is in a different department with different resources (study sample, data collection) etc. I'm sure they'd be understanding though!
 
WOOOOOOOOO!
Just checked the site and my NICHD and my status (health disparities - new applicant) changed to funded!!!
I am crying.

Reward Decision notice 2020 cycle:
-07/01: NCATS CR (renewal)
-07/18: NIGMS CR
-07/19: NIAAA CR (new)
-07/27: NHLBI Peds (new)
-07/28: NIDA CR (renewal)
-07/29: NINDS and NIAMS (twitter)
-07/30: NHGRI Peds, NIEHS, NIA (new and renewal), NICHD CR (new), NICHD HD (new)
 
Got an email overnight that my first renewal Peds LRP through NICHD funded for two years!

Reward Decision notice 2020 cycle:
-07/01: NCATS CR (renewal)
-07/18: NIGMS CR
-07/19: NIAAA CR (new)
-07/27: NHLBI Peds (new)
-07/28: NIDA CR (renewal)
-07/29: NINDS and NIAMS (twitter)
-07/30: NHGRI Peds, NIEHS, NIA (new and renewal), NICHD CR (new), NICHD HD (new)
-08/1: NICHD Peds (renewal)
 
NIMH clinical renewal- just switched to funded in the portal!! Oh, thank goodness!

this was my second renewal application. Last year I applied for my first renewal for NIMHD for health disparities, and didn’t get it. I switched to NIMH clinical track for the renewal and just got it!
 
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