No Garnishing of Social Security for Student Debt Act

Bill: 116-hr-5907
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2020-02-13
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies

Debt collection

Government lending and loan guarantees

Higher education

Social security and elderly assistance

Student aid and college costs
Latest action: action_date: 2020-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-02-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>No Garnishing of Social Security for Student Debt Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits administrative offsets that use an individual's Social Security benefits to pay a federal student loan debt. (An administrative offset is the withholding of funds payable by or held by the United States to satisfy a debt.)</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5907 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 13, 2020 Mr. Sires introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 31, United States Code, to prohibit administrative offsets of social security benefit payments and social security disability insurance benefit payments with respect to claims arising from Federal student loans, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Garnishing of Social Security for Student Debt Act . 2. Prohibition of certain administrative offsets (a) In general Section 3716(c)(3)(A) of title 31, United States Code, is amended— (1) in clause (i), by striking as provided in clause (ii) and inserting as provided in clauses (ii) and (iii) ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new clause: (iii) No claim arising from a loan made, insured, or guaranteed under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.) may be collected by administrative offset of any payment described in clause (i). . (b) Applicability The amendments made by this Act shall apply only with respect to payments that become due to an individual after the date of enactment of this Act.