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Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will
garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months.
“It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,”
says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
To student debtors fac…

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-01 17:28:50

2026 will bring massive changes to federal student loans : NPR
npr.org/2025/12/23/nx-s1-56305

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-12-23 20:57:22

This is sick, evil, and a very intentional infliction of pain.
Especially so when it is noted that that El Cheato's mass pardons and commutations have cheated many victims (and the government) who are owed restitution by criminals.
npr.org/2025/12/23/nx-s1-5653…