Social Security News

      From CNBC : The U.S. Department of Education is pausing its plan to garnish people’s  Social Security benefits  if they have defaulted...

      From MarketWatch : The Trump administration is turning on some of the harshest consequences for falling behind on student loans.    St...

      On January 8, 2025 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an "Issue Spotlight" on Social Security Offsets and Defau...

      From Forbes : Last year, the Biden administration announced a new initiative to streamline student loan relief for certain disabled ...

      From CNBC : The U.S. Department of Education has suspended the seizure of tax refunds, Social Security and other government payments ...

      From Forbes : The Biden administration took a big step this week towards making significant changes to a key federal student loan forg...

      From National Public Radio : The U.S. Education Department announced Thursday that it is discharging the outstanding student loans of...

     From Forbes : Student loan borrower advocacy organizations filed a formal petition today, calling on the Biden administration to grant...

     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) : Background: Individuals with TPD [Total and Permanen...

     From the Texas Tribune :   If 69-year-old Lynda Sue Costley wants to shower, she has to go to a friend’s house. Her trailer, on a g...

     The Christian Science Monitor has a nice article on the big and growing problem of student loan debt among those receiving Social Se...

     From Marketwatch : Since 2007 Linda Carrasquillo has been unable to work due to an injury she suffered at her job cleaning buses.  ...

     From WFLA : Mamie Walker is 84-years-old, has never attended college and depends on her monthly social security check of $1,498 to ...

     I missed that the big tax bill passed at the end of 2017 contained a change that benefits some disabled individuals. You were already...

     From the Los Angeles Times : A group of former students defrauded by for-profit colleges is alleging in court that the Educat...

     From a letter from Senator Elizabeth Warren to the Inspector Generals at the Department of Education and the Social Security Adminis...

     From a piece in Huffpost written by Nancy Altman and Raúl Grijalva: ... [U]ntil 1996, income from Social Security was one of the fe...

     From the New York Daily News : The feds are ripping off disabled Social Security recipients by skimming their benefits in order to...

     The New York Time s has an editorial today on the rapidly increasing problem of student loan debt among the elderly. The editorial ur...

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