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Defaults on student loans rising (12 News Phoenix)
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:01 GMT
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Every year, tens of thousands of college students and graduates stop making payments on their student loans. For more than a decade, that loan-default rate was in decline because the federal government toughened penalties for schools with high shares of defaults.
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Dealing with student-loan debt (12 News Phoenix)
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:21 GMT
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• Seek help early. If you lose your job, consider asking your lender right away about options to lower or postpone monthly payments. A lot of people wait until it's too late and the overdue notices pile up.
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Defaults on student loans rising (The Arizona Republic)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:05:42 GMT
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Advocates cite tuition, loose lending, low wages.
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Social Security checks may get smaller (KETK 56 Tyler)
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:18:19 GMT
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A little–noticed law could soon result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of the elderly and disabled who owe the U.S. money from defaulted loans and other debts more than a decade old. Social Security benefits are off–limits to creditors, such as credit–card companies and banks. But the U.S. can collect debts to federal agencies by "offsetting," or withholding Social ...
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Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors (WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:05:41 GMT
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A little-noticed law could result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of seniors who owe the U.S. money from defaulted loans and other debts more than a decade old.
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Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors (WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:15:46 GMT
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A recent federal law lifted the 10-year statute of limitations on withholding Social Security payments on defaulted debt, adding $6 billion to delinquent debt owed Uncle Sam.
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Tertiary Education Reforms Long Overdue (Scoop.co.nz)
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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:33:59 GMT
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Like thousands of other parents around the country I've delivered my university aged children to their respective universities in the past couple of weeks. With 'O Week' over for another year, and everyone settling in to new halls of residence or flats, the academic year is well underway.
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Nine O'Clock (Nine O'Clock)
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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:56:57 GMT
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Meteorologists have extended a yellow code weather alert for snowfall, blizzard and cold weather in 21 counties, warning that they expect a significant layer of snow in the country’s hilly and mountainous regions.
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Nine O'Clock (Nine O'Clock)
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Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:41:59 GMT
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Last year also brought more final rulings in corruption cases. The number of people with final rulings in cases of corruption at high and medium level increased last year, reads a National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) activity report.
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Tax tips for 2009 from Missouri CPAs (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
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Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:21:54 GMT
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The Missouri Society of CPAs (www.mocpa.org) is the largest professional group dedicated to advancing certified public accountants in Missouri.
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