While this is technically supportive of the theory, there is still no significant evidence to indicate that the majority
of delinquent student loans fall on the parents.
With so many people unable to pay off their student loan debt, the federal government has hired private debt collection companies to go after those with
delinquent student loan debts.
In this post I'd like to look deeper into three «fear factor» statistics that are the focus of many media articles: Average Student Loan Debt, Total Student Loan Debt and
Delinquent Student Loan Payments.
The number of lawsuits filed
over delinquent student loans that were made by private lenders has increased significantly in the past two years, lawyers told The Associated Press, even though borrowers are missing payments much less often than they did during the height of the recession.
The growth of household debt Number of mortgages delinquent 60 or 90 days Number of car loans that are delinquent Growth of student loans Delinquent student loans
According to the Department of Treasury's Financial Management Service data in 2000 only six people had their Social Security checks garnished
for delinquent student loan debt.
Let's focus on the frightening loss of needed Social Security benefits from people now eligible for Social Security but
with delinquent student loans.
About 5 % of the $ 85 billion
delinquent student loans in the U.S. is owed by borrowers ages 60 and over, and another 12 % of the total is the responsibility of Americans ages 50 to 59.
The ratio of defaulted student loan accounts over the total number of student loan accounts was superimposed with the ratio
of delinquent student loans over the total number of opened student loan accounts.
However, if your student loan debt is with a state or federal government program, they'll most likely apply your refund to
your delinquent student loan balance.
A delinquent student loan is considered any loan that has not been paid for 90 days after a scheduled payment.
How do you avoid joining
the delinquent student loan holders?
But there's more, as a deeper dive shows
these delinquent student loans have some relation to graduation rates: students who exited college without a diploma have delinquency rates four times greater than students earning bachelor's degrees.
As you can see from data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York the number of
delinquent student loans and average balance of debt continues to rise for those above 60.
Some repayment plans will remove
your delinquent student loan debt from the CAIVRS system once you've made on - time payments for a set number of months.
And what's more, older borrowers are seeing their social security checks garnished for repayment of
delinquent student loans.
A delinquent student loan is considered any loan that has not...
To those approaching retirement in the U.S. and are delinquent in student loan payments, the government will reduce your monthly Social Security amount to go toward paying off
those delinquent student loans.
A skeptical Ben Miller, Center for American Progress Senior Director of Post-Secondary Education, claims that the majority of
delinquent student loans can be attributed to college dropouts, not the parents.
Under federal law, the government has the power to garnish wages to repay
the delinquent student loan without taking the borrower to court.