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Showing posts with label student-loan bankruptcy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label student-loan bankruptcy. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Ashline v. Department of Education: Dental Assistant with Master's Degree from Kaplan U. discharges $230,000 in student loan debt

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 Diane Ashline, a 47-year old single mother, worked for 20 years as a dental assistant. Hoping to increase her income, she took out student ...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

You can now follow my blog on follow.it: Thanks to my faithful readers

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Many of my readers follow my blog on FeedBurner, but that service is being eliminated this month.  I am now signed up with follow.it, an al...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Student-loan payment relief during COVID crisis ends soon: Will student debtors start making payments again?

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 About 40 million student borrowers got some relief last year when the Department of Education allowed student debtors to temporarily skip t...
Friday, April 9, 2021

Tingling v. ECMC: 52-year old student-loan debtor with multiple degrees loses her case before Second Circuit Court of Appeals

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Bankruptcy is intended to give honest but unfortunate debtors a fresh start in life. People who mismanage their finances, spend money improv...
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...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Politicians want $50,000 in student-debt relief: A good idea?

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  Top Democrats, led by Senators Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren , are calling on President Joe Biden to forgive student-loan debt up to ...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

The Parent Plus Program was a policy blunder that hurts low-income and African American families: Shut It down

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Our government's Parent PLUS Program is an insidious scheme to lure low-income parents into taking out student loans so their kids can g...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Immigrant obtains medical degree, can't find MD job. Bankruptcy judge discharges $400,000 in student-loan debt

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Seth Koeut was born in Cambodia and came to the United States as a child. Like many immigrants, he applied himself energetically to obtain ...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Woman enrolls in low-ranked law school, accumulates massive debt, and is academically dismissed only three credit hours from getting her degree: Is that fair?

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 Jill Stevenson enrolled at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 2002. She completed 87 credit hours toward completing her degree, but she was ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Attention Student Loan Debtors: The Department of Education may want a piece of your inheritance!

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Jill Stevenson enrolled at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 2002, but she never graduated. Although she completed 87 of the 90 credit hours sh...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Three professors propose a complicated plan to protect private student-loan debtors: But isn't there a simple solution?

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 Leaves of Grass ,  director Tim Blake Nelson's cinematic paean to Oklahoma culture, tells a story about  Bill and Brady Kincaid, twin b...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Parent Plus Loans: A despicable government program cruelly drives mom and pop into poverty so their kids can go to college

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If you are not outraged by the federal government's Parent Plus student-loan program, you have a heart of stone. According to The Hechin...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

Leary v. Great Lakes Educational Loan Services: Bankruptcy judge slaps student-loan servicer with a $378,000 contempt sanction

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 A few weeks ago, Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glen slapped a huge contempt penalty on Great Lakes Educational Loan Servicers--$378,629.62! Why? ...
Friday, October 2, 2020

If You Have Problem Debt and Student Loans – Do Not Vote for Trump--Essay by Steve Rhode

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  Written by  Steve Rhode The 2016 election is a cantankerous event. What surprises me most are the people that want to decide who to vote f...