Lawsuit On Student Loan Collection Practices

<br /><br />     From Market Watch:<br /><br /><br />For about a year, Hector Rodriguez lost a portion of his limited <br />income, including in some months, a portion of his much-needed Social <br />Security disability benefits over a student loan that was eligible for <br />forgiveness. <br /><br />Rodriguez, an army veteran, took out student loans <br />in the 1970s to attend college, but he ultimately had to drop out due to<br /> frequent

Lawsuit On Student Loan Collection Practices

     From Market Watch: For about a year, Hector Rodriguez lost a portion of his limited income, including in some months, a portion of his ...

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I.R.S. Drops Coal In The Stockings Of Poor Disabled People

<br /><br /><br />     From the Washington Post:<br /><br /><br />The Treasury Department refuse[d] to stop forcing permanently disabled <br />people to pay taxes on student loans that have been canceled, leaving a <br />vulnerable population susceptible to thousands of dollars in charges, <br />according to Senate staffers. <br /><br /> Anyone with a severe disability is eligible to have the government <br />discharge their federal student loans. The

I.R.S. Drops Coal In The Stockings Of Poor Disabled People

     From the Washington Post: The Treasury Department refuse[d] to stop forcing permanently disabled people to pay taxes on student loans t...

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Student Loan Offset Problems

<br /><br />     The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a 90 page report on the offsets applied to Social Security benefits due to unpaid student loans. Even though the GAO seems to me to try to downplay the problem, it's still clear that it's real and serious. Many people are being thrown into poverty by the offsets as shown by the chart below, even though many of the student loans went to

Student Loan Offset Problems

     The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a 90 page report on the offsets applied to Social Security benefits due to unpaid...

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Action Needed Before Inauguration Day

<br />     From Michael Hiltzik writing in the Los Angeles Times:<br /><br /><br />The Department of Education and the Social Security <br />Administration jointly are doing yeoman’s work in identifying about <br />387,000 severely disabled and insolvent Americans saddled with federal <br />student debt they can’t repay and informing them that the law allows <br />their loans to be forgiven. But one agency still needs to act to make <br />

Action Needed Before Inauguration Day

     From Michael Hiltzik writing in the Los Angeles Times: The Department of Education and the Social Security Administration jointly are d...

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