DeVos Sued For Garnishing Wages Over Student Debt

Politico reports:

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is continuing to garnish the wages of federal student loan borrowers who fall behind on payments even though Congress suspended the practice in the economic rescue package, according to a new lawsuit.

An upstate New York woman who works as a home health aide for less than $13 an hour claimed in the lawsuit, filed late Thursday, that the federal government seized more than $70 from her paycheck as recently as last week — nearly a full month after President Donald Trump signed the CARES Act into law.

She is suing on behalf of about 285,000 borrowers whose wages are being garnished, according to the lawsuit.

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