Legal Opinion
Lockhart v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 7, 2005No. 04-881PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
We consider whether the United States may offset Social Security benefits to collect a student loan debt that has been outstanding for over 10 years.
I
A
Petitioner James Lockhart failed to repay federally rein-sured student loans that he had incurred between 1984 and 1989 under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program. These loans were eventually reassigned to the Department of Education, which certified the debt to the Department of the Treasury through the Treasury Offset Program. In 2002, the Government began withholding a portion of petitioner’s Social Security payments to offset his debt, some…
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