In Re Boggan

MEMORANDUM OPINION

RONALD S. BARLIANT, Bankruptcy Judge.

This case is before the Court to decide the question of when, in a Chapter 13 case, an education loan can be put into a special class and paid at a higher rate than the other unsecured debts. The Debtor pro poses to pay her education loans in full, but only 15% of her other unsecured debts.

In In re Lawson, 93 B.R. 979, 988 (Bkrtcy.N.D.Ill.1988), Judge Wedoff explained that the fact that a claim would be nondischargeable in a Chapter 7 case does not make it proper to accord that claim special treatment in a Chapter 13 case. In order for a…