|
Courts Rule That Disabled Woman Living Below the Poverty Line Must Repay Student LoansBloombergJun. 23, 2015 |
Popular 
IDF Soldier Takes Sledgehammer to Jesus Statue During Operations in Lebanon
Mark Levin and Jonathan Pollard Push for Nuking Iran
Reuters: Trump Approved Iran Strikes After Speaking With Netanyahu
Trump Says U.S. Sent 'A Lot of Guns' to Iranian 'Protesters'
Carrie Prejean Boller Takes on the Zionist Lobby at White House Religious Liberty Commission
 The compassion of the state.Monica Stitt, a 45-year-old woman, is unemployed, disabled, and living far below the poverty line. Still, a federal district judge decided in June that she could not cancel more than $37,000 in student debt in bankruptcy, because she hadn’t made a good-faith attempt at repaying the loans. Her entire income—about $10,000 per year, according to the judge—consisted of Social Security disability benefits and public assistance. She has been unemployed since 2008. Stitt had borrowed $13,250, which had increased with interest to $37,400 by the time she filed for bankruptcy. After the bankruptcy judge ruled she couldn't shake the debt, the woman appealed to the U.S. District Court in Maryland without a lawyer, where a District judge upheld the bankruptcy court's ruling on June 9. Read More 
|
