The Department of Education announced a policy change on June 2, saying it will not garnish Social Security payments to collect unpaid federal student loans.
Education Department spokeswoman Ellen Keast told The Epoch Times that the department has “put a pause on any future social security offsets.”
In April, the Trump administration announced it would be resuming collection of loan repayments on May 5, with “other actions to help borrowers get back into repayment.”
Keast said that since student loan repayments restarted, the department has “not offset any social security benefits” from those who have not been able to make repayments and that this will continue….