To the editor: Older people who have a student loan debt that never resolved are in danger of being homeless due to efforts to collect that debt (“The elderly in the sights while the Government restarts social security ornament in student loans.” May 16). This seems extremely cruel.
The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, says that the restart of collection is a necessary step for debtors, “both for the good of their own financial health and the economic perspectives of our nation.”
As usual, this requires an individual consideration step by step when making these decisions. That is not happening.
Mindy Taylor-Poss, Venice
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To the editor: If a person is still paying their loans in their oldest years, then he chose the wrong school and the wrong specialization. My feeling is that the middle class has been fooled to believe that if your child enters an elite university, then they have the keys of good life. The problem with this belief is this: your child can attend an expensive elite school but study in a specialty of badly paid. Therefore, his son's debt becomes a spectrum that disturbed his life for decades.
Unless your son studied in a Stem field or in some other high remedy specialty, encourage him to choose a school where his student debt is not a curse in their lives even in their golden years.
Mark Walker, Yorba Linda
