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cm0002@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 19 days ago

Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says

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cm0002@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 19 days ago
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The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.
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    How are they going to collect from people who don’t have money or assets?

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      They’ll just bring back the debtors’ prisons.

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        Or mandatory service.

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      Huge gift to student borrowers. Just default on your loans and take the hit to your credit.

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        They can not only garnish your paycheck but also your social security aka retirement money…

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          They could if they weren’t selling the debt to collection agencies. That’s the hack. Take the hit to your credit, maybe a civil suit to get a little out of you, but don’t bother paying the collection agency. Just refuse to talk to them.

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            Hold up private collections? Sorry I missed that one. Do you have a link on that? I haven’t seen that stated yet

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              Oh nope, my bad. I didn’t read the article. I guess we’re all fucked.

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                With the amount of fucking stupid going on you never know anymore lol. I mean only 38% of people are current on their federal loans apparently so it’ll be fine…….

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