Requesting Cosponsors To Discharge Student Debt through Bankruptcy: H.R.449 - 114th Congress (2015-2016)
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Apr 11th, 2016Someone from Lakeside Marblehead, OH writes:
We need your help, please restore our faith in government. It was governmentvthat did this, it will take government to fix it. Thank you, Lorrie HedgesApr 11th, 2016Someone from Fall River, MA signed.
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Apr 10th, 2016Someone from Post Falls, ID writes:
Debt slavery has to end. At age 18 I was taken into a room at college surrounded by bankers and school administrators and told to take out as big a loan as they would give me. That was at an age where I couldn't gamble, or drink but I could be made to become a debt slave. No one in that room had my best interest at heart.REPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 5th, 2016Someone from Paradise, CA writes:
I am.a 52 year old woman, who has a Masters degree, working as a social worker. I was divorced recently, not my choice, I am no longer a home owner, I am financially insecure, and after taxes and health insurance I gringo home 7.50 an hour. I am also having health problems. I am still drowing in Student loan debt. I have no idea what to do anymore. I need relief please help.REPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 2nd, 2016Someone from Chicago, IL writes:
The school I borrowed money to attend, one of those "for-profit" technical schools" in 1989. The school closed 2 months before I graduated and the owners of the school were charged with many crimes, including stealing the loan money. I originally borrowed around 8 grand. Because of fear and trying to keep my credit report clean, I paid on the loan for the first 5 years and then illness, loss of work and other things got me behind and I defaulted. In the mid to late 90's, I got a letter from a lawyer's office out of Arizona stating that a class action lawsuit had been filed against the school. After taking it all the way to the supreme court, the students lost their case over some obscure law. I decided right then to no longer pay on the loan. I never was able to work as a surgical technologist and the owners of the school ADMITTED IN COURT that they had stolen all the loan money. Why should I have to pay off this loan, which at this time had ballooned to WAY over what I had originally borrowed. In 2000, I was scared into trying to "rehabilitate" the loan. I was planning on getting married and I wanted to clean up my credit report so we could buy a home in the future. This turned out to be a scam as after I paid the $1500.00 I was required to get my loan back to "good standing", the company could no longer be reached. They simply STOLE $1500.00 from me. Now, in 2016, my loan is close to 20 thousand dollars...all from fees, interest and god knows what else. I have paid around 6 to 7 grand towards a 10 grand debt and yet I NOW owe 20 grand! The nightmare will never end! When I once tried to inquire about my "bill" (this was after my tax returns started being taken), the person I was speaking to on the phone couldn't find ANY record of me with the DOE!!! Not with my Social Security number, name, old address..NOTHING!! I simply didn't exist! However, SOMEBODY from the government can find me because my tax returns are taken! PLEASE return the ability to include student loans in bankruptcy. It is offensive that a person can run up there credit cards, buy an expensive car, house, walk away from other loans, yet a person who is DROWNING in student loan debt is a slave FOREVER. REAL life cannot be predicted and a person should not become a slave to predatory lending practices and evil collection agencies that have the right to call 10 times a day, every day and harass a person knowing this person can NEVER get out from under their debt, regardless of any kind of "problem" like being disabled, (yes, the DOE garnishes disability payments and social security benefits!). PLEASE do the right thing and allow the same protections under the law as any other debtor. I would like to, at age 50, finally be able to buy a house, a new car or anything else without the fear of it being taken from me to feed a debt that will NEVER be paid off!! thank youREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 1st, 2016Someone from White Salmon, WA signed.
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Apr 1st, 2016Someone from Houston, TX writes:
Maximizing profits from student loans, and specializing the restrictions for bankruptcy proceedings is reprehensible exploitation. This bill would help that deplorable situation.REPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 1st, 2016Someone from Sacramento, CA writes:
The economy is truly in need of this change. Something needs to be done. All through the 90's so many students were highly encouraged to get through college no matter what, in promise for a better future. Many of these students came from families which their parents never attended college themselves with little knowledge of what was ahead of them. Now, so many now have no future at all. Instead people who never went to school are better off than those that worked hard to do so. Bankruptcy is still something that most hard working people do not take lightly, but it at least could be an option for those desperately in need.REPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 1st, 2016Someone from Cornwall, NY writes:
Besides bankruptcy protection, amnesty is needed for additional protection and good faith . . . similar to the Vietnam objections, I was a marine.REPORT COMMENTS
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