Posted on 12/01/2022 10:25:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Tens of millions of Americans who thought they’d gotten a huge and unexpected break suddenly can’t be sure.
In August, President Biden told those laboring under obscene amounts of student loan debt that if they earn less than $125,000 per year, they would be eligible to have at least $10,000, and possibly up to $20,000, of that debt forgiven. Since then, 26 million people have applied for that relief, and 16 million have been approved so far.
But now they’re in limbo, as a slew of Republican-led legal challenges claiming that Biden’s order exceeds his powers have frozen the loan forgiveness program, and threaten to scuttle it altogether.
If that happens, most of those millions of people will be right back where they were before, facing the same financial burdens.
However there is one group of borrowers who would be not just back where they started, but actually worse off than if the president had never attempted loan forgiveness in the first place. And the only thing they did to deserve it was to be born too early.
Emily Fitzmaurice is one of them.
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The government cargo-cultists are going to be disappointed a lot.
Some say lucky break. Others say scamming tax payers for something most didn’t receive and are not in debt for.
My wife an I both got student loans....and repaid them!!!
“And the only thing they did to deserve it was to be born too early.”
Call the waaaaambulance. He snowflakes. You took the loans. Being born “too early” has nothing to do with paying your debts.
Biden knew he didn’t have the authority to ‘give’ a $20,000 perk to a group that overwhelmingly votes democrat.
It was a scam to turn out the vote for his party.
No use whining now ... they’ve already cast their votes.
“President Biden told those laboring under obscene amounts of student loan debt”
Awwwwww. The poor darlings. Getting a college education and having to actually “labor” to pay it off. Fetch me my clutching pearls and sobbing cloth. I just can’t get through this pathetic story without uncontrollable crying.
We should be in the streets with signs:
Cancel my adult loans!
Cancel my mortgage!
Cancel my credit card debt!
Cancel ALL of my debt Joe!
Shove it down their collective Marxists throats!
Oh well, the disingenuous gesture served its purpose….got a few more real votes…it is unconstitutional and grotesquely unfair…but that doesn’t bother this ‘administration’…
all as planned by Xidens henchmen. “See, you can’t blame me, blame the mean people (Republicans)...”
Asking 80% of the population that didn’t go to college to pay for 20% that did go to college is a cruel joke.
Imagine how inexpensive college would be if the government wasn’t artificially inflating costs to begin with with their pell grants, government backed student loans, and now government lending student loans. All of that meant big money going to colleges so that colleges raised tuition rates and other fees.
Add it to the long list.
Joe Manchin thought he would get a pipeline for West Virginia for his vote. He got the rug pulled out from under him.
Railroad union workers thought Brandon would stand strong with them in their fight against management until he turned the matter over to Congress.
Notice a pattern?
The procedure in bankruptcy requires a debtor to file a lawsuit (and adversary action) against the DOE if they want the court to consider releasing them from their student loans. Under the new guidelines, the DOJ, the government agency representing the DOE in Bankruptcy Court, will roll over in these lawsuits upon a much lower threshold of hardship amounting to a mere imbalance in present income and the debtor's reasonable expenses apart from the student loan payments. There is even some suggestion that the DOJ will allow debtors to open bankruptcy cases filed in the past to discharge student loans if they show a present hardship.
Why can’t they just get a Job and pay their debt? Their degree in Lesbian Dance Theory should provide enough opportunity to earn a good living
All the educated morons who bought a BMW under the belief that their debt would be forgiven now owe an additional $700 per month for seven years on a new car payment.
Brilliant!
Joe Biden made the promise before the election. He doesn’t seem to be doing anything to overcome the court ruling. I suspect that it will quietly die since the goal of getting votes was fulfilled. There is no way in hell that the financial status of the student borrowers was in any way a concern for the White House staff.
I’m not on their side, (I repaid my school debt) but the debts you list can be discharged in Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Student debt cannot.
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