Capstones
Graduation Date
Fall 12-14-2018
Grading Professor
Andrew Lehren
Subject Concentration
Business & Economics
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Abstract
The US Department of Education is supposed to use its computers to match its borrowers who now suffer from total permanent disabilities based on Social Security or Veteran Administration rolls. If the borrower has been disabled for more than five consecutive years, then deductions for unpaid student loans are supposed to cease.
A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a federal agency that reviews government work, shows that the program, now a computerized system that matches Social Security numbers, fails to identify thousands of individuals who deserve student debt relief.
Link: https://medium.com/@careinicke/offset-how-the-government-improperly-takes-money-from-the-disabled-8928cd556f93
Recommended Citation
Reinicke, Carmen, "Offset: How the government improperly takes money from the disabled" (2018). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gj_etds/293
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