The Supreme Court will hear Wednesday a case involving Social Security payments being cut to repay delinquent student loans. Currently, there is nearly $7 billion in delinquent student loan debt, according to a government brief on the case. The case hinges on a pair of laws that send mixed messages about whether Social Security payments are shielded from the government's collection efforts: the Debt Collection Act and the Higher Education Act.
November 01, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
James Lockhart was surviving on $874 a month in Social Security disability payments plus $10 in food stamps when his student loans from nearly 20 years earlier caught up with him.
He was told his Social Security checks would be cut by 15 percent, an offset to pay more than $80,000 in delinquent student loans. The next day, he started legal action that has led to a hearing Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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