Need employment agency to fulfill loan requirement

January 7, 2010 1:17 PM

Need an employment agency in Minneapolis! To receive an unemployment deferment on my student loans, I need to meet this requirement: "You must be registered with a private or public employment agency if there is one within 50 miles of your permanent or temporary address. School placement offices and “temporary agencies” do not qualify as public or private employment agencies." All I can find are temp agencies. This mythical "employment agency" doesn't seem to exist in the form the direct loans people want. Help me find one!
posted by punishinglemur to Work & Money (5 answers total)

I think they want you to be registered with your local unemployment agency.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 1:23 PM on January 7, 2010

Go to your local state employment office and register there, even if you are not eligible for unemployment
posted by mareli at 1:43 PM on January 7, 2010

Have you tried here? Minneapolis Employment and Training Center

Also see here: WorkForce Center locations
posted by messica at 1:55 PM on January 7, 2010

what kind of proof do they want? my loan agency paperwork said monster.com et al was acceptable, and it is/was. and i didn't have to provide any proof either, just check off that i was registered with them, which i was. so register with monster so you'll be covered if your loan agency wants proof down the road.

to make sure that monster is okay with your loan agency, you should call and ask. but "You must be registered with a private or public employment agency if there is one within 50 miles of your permanent or temporary address. School placement offices and “temporary agencies” do not qualify as public or private employment agencies." was pretty close to the same wording on my deferment paperwork. don't sweat it.
posted by misanthropicsarah at 10:03 PM on January 7, 2010

When I filed for an unemployment deferment (I also have direct loans), I was told that if an agency did permanent as well as temporary placement, then it was acceptable. (So that would cover something like Adecco, Randstad, Officeteam, etc.) You may want to double check, but as of a couple years ago that was the case.
posted by SisterHavana at 11:13 PM on January 7, 2010