{"id":12,"date":"2014-09-11T22:24:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T22:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2014-09-11T22:27:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T22:27:31","slug":"do-i-have-to-repay-my-federal-student-loans-out-of-my-social-security-disability-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/do-i-have-to-repay-my-federal-student-loans-out-of-my-social-security-disability-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I have to repay my Federal student loans out of my Social Security Disability benefits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2014\/09\/10\/155000-americans-had-social-security-benefits-cut-in-2013-because-of-student-debt\/tab\/comments\/\">this post from yesterday\u2019s Wall Street Journal online edition<\/a> indicating that a rising number of Americans are having their Social Security benefits cut to help repay student loans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">You will <strong>not<\/strong> have to repay your <strong>Federal <\/strong>student loans if you are getting SSDI or SSI benefits <strong>and<\/strong> you meet certain guidelines.\u00a0 The most frequent type beneficiaries use is the \u201cTotal and Permanent Disability Discharge.\u201d\u00a0 Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/repay-loans\/forgiveness-cancellation#how-do-i-find\">https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/repay-loans\/forgiveness-cancellation#how-do-i-find<\/a> to start the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When selecting an attorney to help you in your Social Security Disability claim, you should find out if he would represent you in this process.\u00a0 It is standard procedure for me to help my clients, even after we win our claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this post from yesterday\u2019s Wall Street Journal online edition indicating that a rising number of Americans are having their Social Security benefits cut to help repay student loans. You will not have to repay your Federal student loans if you are getting SSDI or SSI benefits and you meet certain guidelines.\u00a0 The most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameslewislawoffice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}