US Education Department delays plan to garnish wages of student borrowers in default

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education, for now, is backtracking on plans to garnish wages and seize tax refunds of studen t l oan borrowers in default, t h e departmen t announced Friday.Less than a month after the agency said it would begin garnishing wages by sending notices to roughly 1,000 borrowers in default the first full week of January, the department said that the tem...

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