The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about whether or not the government has the right to offset a portion of scheduled Social Security benefits in order to recoup delinquent federal student loans. According to an Associated Press report on the case, "James Lockhart was surviving on $874 a month in Social Security disability payments plus $10 in food stamps when student loans from two decades earlier caught up with him. He was told that his Social Security checks would be cut by 15 percent, an offset to pay more than $80,000 in delinquent student loans."
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