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Minimum wage, benefits increase won't help people with debts
2 years, 2 months ago

Minimum wage, benefits increase won't help people with debts

NL Times  

The Cabinet’s measures to improve people’s purchasing power in the face of high inflation will not immediately help many people with debts, social counselors warned. But for people with debt payment plans or wage garnishments, that extra money will go directly to their creditors, the counselors said to NOS. The problem is that the seizure-free rate - the minimum amount …

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Education Department targets employers over wage garnishment
4 years, 8 months ago

Education Department targets employers over wage garnishment

Associated Press  

The U.S. Education Department says it’s ramping up efforts to contact more than 37,000 employers who have improperly continued to garnish wages from workers who have fallen behind on their student loans. Congress ordered a temporary pause on involuntary collections in March, but the Education Department was sued weeks later in a class action case alleging that the agency failed …

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54,000 still getting pay held over student debt, filing says
4 years, 8 months ago

54,000 still getting pay held over student debt, filing says

Associated Press  

A Monday court filing from the U.S. Education Department says the agency was still garnishing wages from more than 50,000 workers who had fallen behind on their student loans more than a month after Congress ordered an immediate suspension of the practice during the coronavirus pandemic. Federal law authorizes the Education Department to garnish up to 15% of workers’ paychecks …

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One thing the pandemic hasn’t stopped: Aggressive medical-debt collection
4 years, 8 months ago

One thing the pandemic hasn’t stopped: Aggressive medical-debt collection

Salon  

Darcel Richardson knows she's fortunate in one sense: She still has her job as a vocational counselor in Baltimore. "Moving forward," the statement continued, "Froedtert Health will no longer be filing small claims suits for medical debt collection. "Where debt collection is underway for pre-COVID medical debt, they will continue to do that," said Jenifer Bosco, a staff attorney for …

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DeVos not enforcing pause on wage garnishments, lawsuit says
4 years, 8 months ago

DeVos not enforcing pause on wage garnishments, lawsuit says

Associated Press  

The U.S. Education Department has continued to garnish wages from workers who are behind on their student loan payments even after Congress ordered the agency to suspend the practice during the coronavirus pandemic, a new lawsuit charges. “The department still has not ensured that all affected employers have received instructions to stop garnishing the pay of their employees with defaulted …

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