Question: Dear Steve, I am a 75-year-old disabled vet. When I retired, I sought ways to bolster my income, and I got scammed. Big Time. I still owe Chase and BoA credit cards a total of nearly $60K. If I have to sell retirement funds to pay them, my income will be a huge hit. …
Question: Dear Steve, I am a 100% T&P disabled veteran and eligible to discharge my federal loans if they were under my name. My family’s federal student loans were consolidated under my wife’s name, partly because I was in a bad way, and I was unable to help with the process. My wife and I …
Question: Dear Steve, My fiance is a 100 percent disabled veteran with a lot of debt truck, house, four-wheeler, the lawnmower. He wants a new hot tub, to fix the driveway, and much more. I’m concerned for him and us as a couple. How can we ever dig out? Pam Answer: Dear Pam, It’s interesting …
Recently President Trump directed the Department of Education to wipe out the federal student loan debt for 25,000 completely disabled veterans, who appear to be the group already in default. He received a lot of praise for this effort. One headline read “Trump’s debt forgiveness for disabled veterans is ‘our duty as Americans.” Watch the …
I was surprised to learn recently the Department of Education is aware of the more than 40,000 disabled military veterans who are legally and severely disabled but there is no process to automatically forgive their student loans even though they are eligible. And let’s not forget, disabled veterans with private student loans are not eligible …
The Department of Education has identified 42,000 veterans who are entitled to a federal student loan discharge without any risk of paying federal taxes on the forgiven debt. However, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has said even though the Department of Education has matched student loan records with disability records from the Department of Veterans Affairs, …
Question: Dear Steve, I am inquiring about my student loan debt, so I recently filed chapter 13 and was told my student loan debt doesn’t qualify to file, I filed chapter 7 like 8 years ago, so I am trying to find out something to do about trying to get the debt forgiven or some …
At age 40, Will Milzarski, an attorney, took leave from his state government job to return to the U.S. Army. After completing officer training, he served two tours of duty in Afghanistan. where he led more than 200 combat missions. On his last day in combat, Milzarski was wounded in the face, which left him …
At age 40, Will Milzarski, an attorney, took leave from his state government job to return to the U.S. Army. After completing officer training, he served two tours of duty in Afghanistan. where he led more than 200 combat missions. On his last day in combat, Milzarski was wounded in the face, which left him …
The Department of Education has said publicly that it will discharge student-loan debt of people who are disabled. Unfortunately, the right hand sometimes does not know what the left hand is doing. Thus, some disabled people who defaulted on their student loans are still being hounded by the Department of Education or one of its …