Comments on: Creditors Use Loophole To Seize Benefits

Bill Collectors Have Found Way To Collect Social Security, Veterans' Payments

[ghwab1949]

I haven't seen any excuse yet posted here for not paying debts when they become due or trying to work out some payment schedule. All I read is sympathy for those who owe and forced welfare for those who might find other welfare-type government payments like Social Security "off limits." If you are on a fixed income or otherwise can't afford on your own to run up what you regard as "essential" debt, better contact a private charity or relative or friend for help.

[grabandgo]

It gives you a warm feeling that our government is out to protect us.

[bobbyduck1]

If this legal stealing goes on why not change the currency and end the madness?
Posted by gohan31 at 10:44 PM : Jun 2, 2009 ***************** The dollar is no more, anyway. bamy sold us to the Chinese. Nice job, Your Lordship. Or was that Messiah. I forgot.
Posted by YouCantBSirius at 4:11 AM : Jun 3, 2009

That was your buddy the shrub who sold us to China. Now the real President has to figure out how to clean up the mess all the GOP crooks and idiots made.

Sheesh, outsourcing and deficit spending using China as the bank for 8 years and you blathering neowacks try to spin it around and make it President Obama's fault. Get real.

[mycommentspg]

You should pay your bills if you are able, but this access to social security is just another example of a do nothing congress while they count their own money! (mycommentspage.blogspot.com)

[retiredgustav]

For thoses that says pay your bills and you won't have a problem, sometimes the creditor screws up and tries to get money they are not entitle to. Many people on fixed income do not have the resources to fight theses b*a*s*t*a*r*d*s.

[novamba]

Why, if this is an ongoing problem, was this not targeted in our recent "monumental" credit law? many of these people receiving SS or VA benefits are struggling to pay off debts left by late spouses. These creditors are not targeting your run of the mill college student with a credit card. Obscene.

[jtmichalec]

The people with comments like "pay your bills and you don't have to worry" were obviously not in New Orleans during Katrina, or in the Midwest last year during the big floods, or have not lost their jobs due to the economic downturn.

[walt1944]

We'll see if your point holds up when your employer suddenly decides your job is discontinued and all you have is unmployment, veteran's pay, or social security to live on in a bad economy with no jobs out there and unemployment reaching for 10%.

It gets pretty hard to pay that electric bill or buy a loaf of bread then!!!

[ronlouver]

Would the simple solution to this problem be to open a seperate account with only access by owner, and designated a benefit account.

[Dgunner]

As a person who gets a pension and disability check. I have this to ask. If the creditors were aware of the persons income bracket and rolled the dice with borrower? The borrower should be given a opportunity to set up a repayment plan in the eventof default.To freeze thier entire assets is not going to do anything but shift the monetary loss to other agencies such as food stamps medicaid and loss of medicare and then the burden finds its way to the emergency room doors of hospitals and clinics and finally to the working tax payer.