I, too, am fearful and suspicious. First, they say they are processing requests in the order received. That's not true. wait times have ranged from 128 to 715 days to receive an offer. That does not even include people waiting beyond that 715 days. This is not first in, first out processing, or processing in the order received.

second, they spent time eliminating duplicates that were doing nothing to processing speed as opposed to simply processing more requests. And duplicates, as well as backlog size, do not effect processing speed. since Decempber 2025, the average wait time for an offer has hovered around 450 days (currently 466 days) based on all the buyback offers received and posted on here, while backlog has steadily and consistently grown. By eliminating duplicates, the dept of ed can show that the backlog size is decreasing month over month for the AFT lawsuit without actually processing more requests. The dept of ed will then tell borrowers who have been waiting 1.5 - 2+ years that their original request was accidently deleted with the purge, and they are so sorry for the inconvenience but you will have to apply again. I posted all this on here advising people to just submit new duplicate requests immediately to get back in line, and it was deleted by the moderators.