No Garnishing of Social Security for Student Debt Act

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5907 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5907

   To amend title 31, United States Code, to prohibit administrative 
    offsets of social security benefit payments and social security 
 disability insurance benefit payments with respect to claims arising 
          from Federal student loans, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2020

  Mr. Sires introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 31, United States Code, to prohibit administrative 
    offsets of social security benefit payments and social security 
 disability insurance benefit payments with respect to claims arising 
          from Federal student loans, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Garnishing of Social Security for 
Student Debt Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFSETS.

    (a) In General.--Section 3716(c)(3)(A) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in clause (i), by striking ``as provided in clause 
        (ii)'' and inserting ``as provided in clauses (ii) and (iii)''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new clause:
    ``(iii) No claim arising from a loan made, insured, or guaranteed 
under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et 
seq.) may be collected by administrative offset of any payment 
described in clause (i).''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by this Act shall apply 
only with respect to payments that become due to an individual after 
the date of enactment of this Act.
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