As the Trump administration resumes collections on defaulted student loans, hundreds of thousands of older Americans with decades-old debts are now at risk of having their Social Security checks garnished.

As the Trump administration resumes collections on defaulted student loans, a surprising population has been caught in the crosshairs: Hundreds of thousands of older Americans whose decades-old debts now put them at risk of having their Social Security checks garnished.

  • partial_accumen
    9•6 days ago

    This is tragic and I hate the system is doing this to our most vulnerable elderly. Knowing I can’t change the system directly, I wonder if there is a solution inside the existing system.

    1. Many colleges and universities offer free tuition for senior citizens
    2. Many student loans can be put into deferment for current students, so no payments would need to be made during that status.

    Could the elderly in the article with outstanding decades old student loans enroll in school to get deferment until the day they die (or at least until the year they transfer to a nursing home provided by the state where they have to sign over all of their social security anyway)?