Dee Ella Lee v. Margaret Spellings, Secretary of the Department of Education

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

In Lee v. Paige, 376 F.3d 1179 (8th Cir.2004), we held that the ten-year time limit in the Debt Collection Act, see 31 U.S.C. § 3716(e)(1), barred the Secretary of Education from offsetting a portion of Dee Ella Lee’s social security benefits to repay a student-loan debt that she owed to the government. The Supreme Court granted certiorari, vacated our judgment, and remanded the case to us for reconsideration in light of its subsequent opinion in Lockhart v. United States, — U.S.-, 126 S.Ct. 699, 163 L.Ed.2d 557 (2005). Spellings v. Lee, — U.S. — — , 126 S.Ct. 825, 163…