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Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors...you better watch what is in those bills!

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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Mar-09-10 12:01 PM
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Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors...you better watch what is in those bills!

2008 Farm Bill will be coming back to haunt a lot of people.


http://finance.yahoo.com/retirement/article/109011/defa...

A little–noticed law could soon result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of the elderly and disabled who owe the U.S. money from defaulted loans and other debts more than a decade old.

Social Security benefits are off–limits to creditors, such as credit–card companies and banks. But the U.S. can collect debts to federal agencies by "offsetting," or withholding Social Security and disability payments.

The Treasury currently withholds benefits of 3.1 million Social Security recipients to recover defaulted student–, farm– and small–business loans, unpaid income taxes, amounts veterans owe for health care, and other debts to the government.
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   k&r  Dappleganger   Mar-09-10 12:19 PM   #1 
   K&R Information recipients should be aware n/t  dmrDU Moderator   Mar-09-10 03:01 PM   #2 
   Profits Over People, as always.  inna   Mar-09-10 03:10 PM   #3 
   Wow, even this is being unrecced..  girl gone mad   Mar-09-10 03:12 PM   #4 
 
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3. Profits Over People, as always.
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4. Wow, even this is being unrecced..
corporatists don't want people to see the man behind the curtain. Keep 'em dumb and uninformed, better for fleecing.
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