5 Things Student Loan Lawyers Ask Borrowers Who File For Bankruptcy

5 Things Student Loan Lawyers Ask Borrowers Who File For Bankruptcy

It’s nearly impossible to cancel your student loan debt in bankruptcy.

Fewer than 1,000 people try each year. Those who do are required to file a lawsuit against their lenders and then convince a bankruptcy judge that they’re so poor there’s no hope of ever repaying the loans.

Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Education, which guarantees most of the roughly $1 trillion in outstanding student loan debt, have been criticized for making unreasonable arguments to sway judges that struggling borrowers can afford their monthly student loan payments. Here are five of them.

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