“Dear Steve, My wages are garnished for a defaulted student loan. I read your post about consolidating and getting on a reduced payment plan (IBR). I have tried this with my federal student loan agency and they will not allow me to do this. Their response is that I cannot consolidate while I am in …
“Dear Steve, Student Loan in default. I have been paying my wage garnishment for almost a year. First of all, THANK YOU for being so helpful with these articles. I am trying to find more information on this new law is nearly impossible which I find odd and discouraging. So having your articles to read …
Let’s get the bad news out of the way, none of this good news in this article applies to private student loans. When it comes to private student loans my advice remains the same as it has been, avoid them like the plague. But for federal student loan holders as of July 1, 2014 a …
“Dear Steve, Just received an Order of Withholding From Earnings for one of our employees, from ECMC in regards to student loans the employee apparently defaulted on. There is reference to Federal Law and threat to the Employer if we don’t granigh 15% of the employee’s wages. I’m not familiar with this Company and their …
“Dear Jim, i need to pay the gov. back over 10,000. they are taking my money from my pay leaving me with hardly enough to live.on.i need to pay back taxes to them. plus the mva. i want to pay but its taking to much and to long. i need help of some kind please! …
“Dear Jim, I owe back taxes to the state of Virginia for ’06 and ’07. I neglected to pay only because I was dealing with a brain tumor. The VA Dept. of Taxation levied a garnishment of 100% of net. VA Dept. of Taxation uses federal tax exemptions not federal limits for garnishment. At least, …
“Dear Steve, 63 years old got an overpayment in 2000 and 2001 from social security SSI. I paid them 10$ for 5 or 6 years and then stopped. I got a notice 3/7 that my wages were garnished. I called HR at work and they said, ‘sure, we got notified last week sometime.’ I make …
“Dear Steve, I have a student loan….i went thru the rehab program last year…i couldn’t agree with nco on a set payment of 115.00 a month they said to low…they sent paperwork to my job for garnishment…my question is this the garnishment was sent from ecmc letterhead in re: nco financial for garnishment..i was told …