[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR682.213]

[Page 690-691]
 
                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
 CHAPTER VI--OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 682_FEDERAL FAMILY EDUCATION LOAN (FFEL) PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart B_General Provisions
 
Sec. 682.213  Prohibition against the use of the Rule of 78s.

    For purposes of the calculations required by this part, a lender may 
not use the Rule of 78s to calculate the outstanding principal balance 
of a loan,

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except for a loan made to a borrower who entered repayment before June 
26, 1987 and who was informed in the promissory note that interest on 
the loan would be calculated using the Rule of 78s. For those loans, the 
Rule of 78s must be used for the life of the loan.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1077, 1078, 1078-1, 1078-2, 1078-3, 1082)

[57 FR 60323, Dec. 18, 1992, as amended at 68 FR 75429, Dec. 31, 2003]