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Showing posts with label ECMC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ECMC. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Department of Education pauses collection efforts against student-loan debtors: Guaranty agencies garnish wages anyway

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In response to the COVID pandemic, the Department of Education allowed student-loan debtors to skip their monthly loan payments without pena...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

"This student loan case fits the definition of insanity": Bankruptcy judge grants 56-year-old Kansan partial relief from his student-loan debt

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 In Goodvin v. Educational Credit Management Corporation , Judge Dale Somers, a Kansas bankruptcy judge, began his opinion with these words...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Laurina Bukovics v. ECMC: An Illinois woman took out $20,000 in student loans, paid back $29,000 and still owed $80,000

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Laurina Kim Bukovics enrolled as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin in 1985 and graduated five years later. She took out about $20,00...
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Saturday, October 19, 2019

Betsy DeVos' Education Department is a clown car, but no one is laughing

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For the last three years, the national political debate has focused on international issues: Russia, Ukraine, and now Syria. But look at wha...
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Thursday, February 7, 2019

The great national shakedown: Student loans are dragging down both young and old

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According to New York Times writer David Leonhardt , the Millennial generation is being "fleeced" by an economic system that favo...
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Saturday, January 19, 2019

Income-Based Repayment Plans for Student Debtors: Is Betsy DeVos a Slave Trafficker?

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To my astonishment, Betsy DeVos, President Trump's Secretary of Education, publicly admitted that the federal student-loan program is a ...
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Friday, September 14, 2018

ECMC screws up: Couldn't prove Mr. Rowe owed on his daughter's student loan

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Educational Credit Management Corporation [ECMC]  is the Department of Education's premier student-loan debt collector. ECMC has appea...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Martin v. ECMC: Iowa bankruptcy judge discharges unemployed lawyer's student loans

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In Martin v.  Educational Credit Management Corporation (ECMC), decided last February, Janeese Martin obtained a bankruptcy discharge of h...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Barbara Erkson v. U.S. Department of Education: A 64-year-old woman, struggling to make ends meet, discharges $107,000 in student loans in bankruptcy

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Barbara Erkson, an unmarried 64-year-old woman, filed an adversary proceeding in a Maine bankruptcy court  in an attempt to discharge $107,0...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Coplin v. U.S. Dep't of Education: Bankruptcy court orders single mother of 4 disabled children to repay $222,000 in student loans

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Heather Coplin graduated from University of Pacific's McGeorge law school in 2009 and gave birth to triplets that same year. The infants...
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Thursday, May 11, 2017

ECMC n v. Acosta-Conniff: Just because you made some bad decisions doesn't disqualify you from discharging your student loans in bankruptcy

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Alexandra Acosta-Conniff (Conniff), a single mother of two and an Alabama school teacher, took out student loans to further her education; a...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

The Opioid Epidemic and The Student Loan Crisis: Is there a link?

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James Howard Kunstler wrote one of his best essays recently about America's opioid epidemic, and he began with this observation:  Whi...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senate progressives should press for hearings on Educational Credit Management Corporation and the student loan crisis

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Senator Elizabeth Warren has had a brilliant career. She grew up in Oklahoma, went to law school, and wound up on the Harvard Law School fac...
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