May 6, 2005

Supreme Court Takes Student-Loan Case

By PETER SCHMIDT

The U.S. Supreme Court announced last week that it would take up the question of whether the federal government can deduct money from Social Security checks to cover long-overdue student-loan debts.

The plaintiff in the lawsuit argues that he is suffering a major financial hardship from the docking of his Social Security checks, but lawyers for the federal government say that a ruling prohibiting the collection practice would leave the Education Department unable to recover more than

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