Editorial: Shoring up student loans
Editorial: Shoring up student loans
Las Vegas Sun - Lockhart never graduated, never subsequently landed steady employment and never paid back the loans. Heart problems and diabetes had befallen him by 1999, saddling him with enormous bills for medications. Editorial: Shoring up student loans Decision will help keep this popular federal program secure for colleges with $80,000 in federal student loans. Lockhart never graduated, never
Group Holds Prayer Vigil On Federal Budget
The Iowa Channel - DES MOINES, Iowa — Local activists are calling on the U.S. they fear proposed cuts in Medicaid, food stamps and student loans.They believe the wealthy will benefit and those who
GOP wants student-loan funding cut
KTVB.com - more ambitious savings $14.3 billion over five years from student loans. The proposal doesn’t call for any cutback to 5.9 million. Unlike student loans, Pell Grants do not have to
Supreme Court: Unpaid student loans can be withheld from Social Security
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Thursday, December 08, 2005 WASHINGTON — Retirees and other Social Security recipients who still haven’t paid off their college loans may find that some of that debt is being deducted from their monthly checks. government acted unlawfully in trying to recover $87,000 in federally insured student loans he took out in the 1980s
Owe Student Loans? Court Says Feds Can Take Social Security
16 WAPT - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government can seize Social Security benefits to pay old student loans. Student LoansBush Administration Says Outstanding Student Loans Total $33 BillionPOSTED: 10:29
Justices Agree Benefits May Be Cut to Cover College Debts
New York Times - Filed at 12:23 p.m. ETWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the government can seize a person’s Social Security benefits to pay old student loans. to seek repayment on defaulted student loans by seizing payments, including Social
Payback time: Stay on top of student loans
East Valley Tribune - By MADLEN READ Student loans: Stay on top of ‘em. ( AP Art) Mismanaging your student loans is so 2004. Avoiding these five financial faux pas can keep you from flushing money down the drain. 1. DON’T stretch it.
Court: Disabled Can’t Escape Student Loans
AP via New York Post - WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s seniors and disabled cannot escape debts from old student loans, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, freeing the government to pursue Social Security benefits as part of an effort to collect billions in delinquent loans. right to seek repayment on defaulted student loans by seizing Social Security