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When your Social Security check disappears because of an old student loan
(By – Jillian Berman, Market Watch)
Naomia Davis hasn’t been able to talk on the phone since 2004. The 80-year-old Brooklynite was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s more than 10 years ago and can no longer read.
Despite all of this, the government still expects her to pay back a federal student loan she took out in the 1980s to attend cosmetology school. And so every month, $140 of the $822 Davis gets in Social Security—her only income, except for Medicaid—is garnished by the government and put toward paying back her debt. Read more…