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**Anonymous Coward** Boogerflicker User ID: 4159 03-11-2010 01:36 AM

http://finance.yahoo.com/retirement/arti...e-planning

Source: The Wall Street Journal

A little–noticed law could soon result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of the elderly and disabled who owe the U.S. money from defaulted loans and other debts more than a decade old.

Social Security benefits are off–limits to creditors, such as credit–card companies and banks. But the U.S. can collect debts to federal agencies by “offsetting,” or withholding Social Security and disability payments.

The Treasury currently withholds benefits of 3.1 million Social Security recipients to recover defaulted student–, farm– and small–business loans, unpaid income taxes, amounts veterans owe for health care, and other debts to the government.

Read entire article at link.

Who's government is this once again? Oh that's right, not ours. doomed

**Leopardsands** · (This post was last modified: 03-11-2010 02:11 AM by Leopardsands.)

These elderly they claim owe something will starve or freeze them to death literally since if they are on social security they largely go without food to pay oil heating or to afford medication even on medicare.
The system they are on looks like pulley with discombobulated pieces of tornado aftermath scrap metal plastic shards.

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IS THERE NO END TO THIS RAPE OF THE POPULACE???

**Anonymous Coward** Transparent Debunker User ID: 4159 03-11-2010 01:56 AM

HeidiLore Wrote:

IS THERE NO END TO THIS RAPE OF THE POPULACE???

I'll tell you what, nothing surprises any more.

Anonymous Coward Wrote:

I'll tell you what, nothing surprises any more.

*Shaking my head sadly.*

**Ouroboros**

How low can you go?
Government interpretation of a Mafia shake down. 2 muscular young men wearing cheap suits arrive, pick up the old folks by their feet and shake them until all the coins fall from their pockets.

**Anonymous Coward** Twatwaffle User ID: 2137 03-11-2010 02:11 AM

Perfect. Attacking the disabled and elderly over pennies is so much easier and productive than getting stockbrokers or banks to pay their taxes.

**The Lucky AC** Everything in life is luck User ID: 888 03-11-2010 02:13 AM

Easy prey are all wolf lawyers know how to pick on anyhow.
Anonymous Coward Wrote:

Perfect. Attacking the disabled and elderly over pennies is so much easier and productive than getting stockbrokers or banks to pay their taxes.

**Anonymous Coward** Twatwaffle User ID: 63 03-11-2010 02:19 AM

HeidiLore Wrote:

Anonymous Coward Wrote:
I'll tell you what, nothing surprises any more.

*Shaking my head sadly.*

I really think they are trying to provoke the citizens into rash behavior so they can unleash the swat teams.

**Anonymous Coward** Confuzzled Observer User ID: 4159 03-11-2010 02:23 AM

Anonymous Coward Wrote:

HeidiLore Wrote:
Anonymous Coward Wrote:
I'll tell you what, nothing surprises any more.

*Shaking my head sadly.*

I really think they are trying to provoke the citizens into rash behavior so they can unleash the swat teams.

Sure seems that way, doesn't it?
Time is moving faster.

**Andromeda** · **Andromeda** Double Tap User ID: 4139 03-11-2010 02:29 AM **Posts: 7,391**

Another good reason not to count on social security.

I don't expect to retire. I just expect my workload to get lighter as I get older.

**Skeptic™** · **Skeptic™** User ID: 2030 03-11-2010 03:43 AM **Posts: 4,551**

That reminds me, I need to pay off my defaulted Student Loan...

doomed

**Anonymous Coward** Lopster User ID: 3286 03-11-2010 03:50 AM

Guess it's a good time we start looking after each other

**Anonymous Coward** Unsung Hero User ID: 4159 03-11-2010 03:51 AM

Skeptic Wrote:

That reminds me, I need to pay off my defaulted Student Loan...

Why? Seriously why?

**Anonymous Coward** Twatwaffle User ID: 4159 03-11-2010 03:52 AM

Anonymous Coward Wrote:

Guess it's a good time we start looking after each other

As it should be. Heartflowers