When unpaid student debt leads to a smaller Social Security check

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interesting article
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Social Security checks cut for 173,000 Americans because of unpaid student loans - Dec. 30, 2016

For more than a year, Jamie Chastain had $177 withheld from his Social Security check each month because of an unpaid student loan from three decades ago.

The 68-year-old has been struggling to pay off his debt since 1982 when he borrowed about $12,500 to get a Master's degree in Liberal Arts from the University of Southern Florida.

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