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Allowance for Loan Losses - Accrued Interest Receivable (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Jun. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Private Education Loans - Traditional [Member]
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Accrued Interest Receivable	$ 385	$ 433
Allowance for Uncollectible Interest	25	26
Private Education Loans - Non-Traditional [Member]
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Accrued Interest Receivable	49	57
Allowance for Uncollectible Interest	8	9
Private Education Loans [Member]
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Accrued Interest Receivable	434	490
Allowance for Uncollectible Interest	$ 33	$ 35

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- Definition

Represents the allowance for uncollectible accrued interest receivable on Private Education Loans.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of interest earned but not received. Also called accrued interest or accrued interest receivable.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.8)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682

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