Utopia Talk / Politics / Student loan relief ... for seniors?

murder rank	Tue Aug 18 14:37:46 Sanders proposes bill to stop Social Security benefit garnishment for unpaid student loans Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is pitching a new bill to stop seniors from having money withheld from their Social Security checks due to unpaid federal student loan debt. Read it here if you want to: https://ww...garnishment-student-loans.html
murder rank	Tue Aug 18 14:41:29 Either Bernie is getting waaaayyyyy ahead of himself here, or this country is more fucked than I thought. If there are senior citizens today that are still carrying student loan debt, that means that these are loans dating back to the 1980s. I don't even understand how that's possible short of homelessness or serious disability. -
jergul rank	Tue Aug 18 16:51:13 "Millions of older adults carry loans either from their own late-in-life schooling or from Parent PLUS loans taken out for their children's " AI. But yah, relatively low labour participation rates will cause a roll-over of student loans into retirement.
Pillz rank	Tue Aug 18 16:54:33 The final decades of civilization are gonna be a trip
Sam Adams rank	Tue Aug 18 21:53:01 It's a thing in negro communities. Take out student loans to do nothing for as long as possble. Don't pay them back. I mean other people do this too, especially fuzzy leftist degrees, but it's not quite as institutionalized there.
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