Elizabeth Maresca was quoted in a Bloomberg BNA article about the effect the new tax law has on federal student loans.
Elizabeth Maresca, a professor at Fordham Law School in New York, said the new law will have a big impact on people she sees at a low-income tax clinic.
The cases can be dire. For example, the IRS attached a lien to the home of a woman at the clinic who received a disability discharge of her federal student loans due to a chronic illness.
She can’t work and the discharge with a big tax bill “really isn’t helping her,” Maresca said. Borrowers currently in IDR programs who get forgiveness of their student loan debt down the road may be facing a similar situation without congressional action.