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Will My Social Security Be Garnished for My Student Loans?
Roger Hickey, Campaign for America's Future
Sept. 11, 2015
Think Social Security benefits are protected from garnishment? Think again!
It used to be against the law to garnish Social Security benefits to pay debts. That’s because Social Security is an earned benefit and a backstop against poverty.
But now a Gingrich era law is changing all that. Hundreds of thousands of seniors are having huge chunks taken out of their checks to pay their student debt.
If you are shocked, you should be. But we can fix this. The Department of Education can suspend garnishing Social Security without an act of Congress.