Very helpful info @twoinanddone.
Somehow it seems like the IRS can sure find you with not much more than a SS number.
As far as student loans/risk/interest rates go - of course, most people know that. My point is that they ARE risky. Maybe this risk should be accounted for in a more transparent way - rather than smacking people with it years down the road? This is why I think the public policy of government- backed student loans is built somewhat on a house of cards.
That loan probably seemed harmless 25 years ago. But it wasn’t . . . and it wasn’t even a significant amount of money. Goodness today that wouldn’t get you through one semester at most schools.
My objection is on a very broad policy level. Though in fairness I don’t have the answers.
Is the government now deciding that we need to make some examples out of people?
And the following item mentioned in the article is similar to what happened to someone I know: