As Twitchy has reported, the Department of Education will begin collecting on student loans in default starting next week, possibly by garnishing wages or helping itself to tax returns. President Donald Trump is doing this because, as they claim, he wants them all "broke and in jail or dead." Loan collection was paused for the COVID pandemic, but that's over now. Certainly, these people knew the day would come when the government would return to collecting on their loans.
ABC News notes that this could harm the credit scores of millions of borrowers.
Pres. Trump's administration is set to begin collecting defaulted student loan payments next week — which could harm the credit scores of millions of borrowers. https://t.co/UNx5yI4qEl
— ABC News (@ABC) May 3, 2025
Max Zahn reports:
President Donald Trump's administration is set to begin collecting defaulted student loan payments next week -- which could harm the credit scores of millions of borrowers.
Roughly 5 million borrowers will have their university and college loans sent for collections beginning May 5, the Department of Education said last month.
When that happens, the borrowers' credit scores could be impacted, since ratings agencies are often alerted when collections ensue, experts told ABC News.
Ah, yes, "experts."
More than 9 million student loan borrowers will face “significant drops” in their credit score when delinquencies resume over the first half of 2025, the New York Federal Reserve found in March.
“These credit score effects show up with delinquencies – that’s when the credit score takes the hit,” Judith Scott-Clayton, a professor of economics and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, told ABC News.
And?
Borrow money; Pay it back.
— Me (@Keefer1958) May 3, 2025
It's worked that way for decades now.
"could harm" - nice choice of words, @ABC. They agreed to repay it. Of course it could harm and it should.
— Lozen (@lozensclone) May 3, 2025
No sympathy
— Regina Waldrop (@ReginaWaldrop) May 3, 2025
Too bad
— Stephen Richardson (@richirich1968) May 3, 2025
Literally happens to everybody if you don’t pay your bills.@ABC are you from the past?
— Sean Kyzar (@skyzarbiker) May 3, 2025
Defaulting on loans should lower credit scores dramatically
— Gary in DFW (@LakerGMC_) May 3, 2025
People took out loans and defaulted? Now they will have credit score dings?
— MonaKnows (@MonaKnows2) May 3, 2025
It’s called adulting.
What good is a credit score otherwise?
If there was only something they could do to not harm their credit scores
— tom (@tomd44) May 3, 2025
I voted for this
— leveret (@WeishuhnRa72086) May 3, 2025
They ruined their own credit. Get it right.
— Tritan-2 (@mgh6632) May 3, 2025
So wait, let me see if I understand this right.
— Dr. Jim (@DrJimFLA) May 3, 2025
If you take out a loan, and you don't pay the loan, those that usually give out loans might consider you a risk for another loan and lower your credit score.
Is that about it?
That sums it up pretty well. What does ABC News suggest to avoid this "harm"? It seems concerned.
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