We sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the US Education Department. This is the Department’s answer. It shows that half of disabled veterans who are eligible for loan forgiveness are already in default. This means the Education Department is wrongly allowing disabled veterans to go into default on student loans that should rightfully have already been erased. Even worse, once a disabled veteran is in default, VA can withhold the veteran’s monthly disability living allowance.
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