Fitch Rates New Hampshire Health & Ed Facilities Authority Education Loan Revenue Bonds.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Fitch has assigned ratings to the following education loan revenue bonds issued by the New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). Health and Education Facilities Authority: --$52,000,000 series 2006A 'AAA'; --$23,000,000 series 2006B 'A'. The ratings are based on the quality of the student loan portfolio, the credit enhancement Credit Enhancement A method whereby a company attempts to improve its debt or credit worthiness. Notes: Credit enhancements take many different forms. An example of a credit enhancement would be conversion rights added on to a debt instrument in order to lower the issuing provided, and the legal structure of the trust. The collateral consists of both Federal Family Education Loan Program The Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) is a United States Department of Education program that provides for private organizations to market, originate, and service federally guaranteed loans, such as Stafford and PLUS loans to students and their parents. (FFELP FFELP Federal Family Education Loan Program ) student loans, as well as alternative loans originated by the issuer which are capped at 24% of the aggregate market value of the trust estate. The ratings address the ability of the trust to pay bond principal at maturity and pay timely interest. The ratings do not address the ability of the auction-rate bondholders to successfully remarket their bonds at an auction now or in the future. The series 2006A and 2006B bonds are tax-exempt, 35-day auction-rate securities. Interest is payable semiannually beginning June 1, 2006. The legal final maturity dates for the series 2006A and 2005B bonds are Dec. 1, 2040. Credit enhancement for the trust consists of the reserve fund, sized at 2.0% of previously issued bonds outstanding and 0.75% of 2006 bonds outstanding, with a floor of $500,000; and excess spread. In addition, the senior bonds benefit from 12.83% subordination provided by the subordinated bonds Subordinated bonds Securities that fall after others in priority of claims on the entity in the case of financial distress. . Under a loan agreement, New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority (the Authority) pledges the proceeds of its tax-exempt issuance to New Hampshire Higher Education Loan Corporation (the Corporation) who, in turn, issues a collateral bond to the Authority as security for the loan. The Corporation will use the tax-exempt proceeds to acquire additional eligible student loans. The Authority is an agency of the State of New Hampshire. It was created to assist certain New Hampshire nonprofit educational institutions and nonprofit health care institutions in the construction and financing of projects undertaken in relation to educational and health care facilities, and to assist qualified entities in the financing of student loan programs. The Authority achieves its mission by issuance of its bonds and by making money available to qualified borrowers through its capital loan program. The Corporation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation nonprofit corporation n. an organization incorporated under state laws and approved by both the state's Secretary of State and its taxing authority as operating for educational, charitable, social, religious, civic or humanitarian purposes. incorporated on Feb. 24, 1983 under the laws of the State of New Hampshire for the purpose of providing low-cost financial assistance to eligible students or their parents. The Corporation was formed at the request of the New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation (the Foundation) in order to originate and service education loans and to provide education loan management services. In 1993 the Corporation was designated as the state's eligible lender under the Higher Education Act The Higher Education Act may refer to an Act of either the Congress of the United States or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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