Student Loan Debt: Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Can Help. Here’s how.
Student Loan Debt: Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Can Help. Here’s how. by Richard Fonfrias, J.D. Chicago’s Financial Rescue & Bankruptcy Lawyer Fonfrias Law Group, LLC Before filing bankruptcy, you should try to get the lender to modify your student loan so its terms fit your budget. If the lender won’t hear of it, then a Chapter […]
Student Loan Debt: “Undue Hardship” Discharges and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Can Help
Student Loan Debt: “Undue Hardship” Discharges and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Can Help by Richard Fonfrias, J.D. Chicago’s Financial Rescue & Bankruptcy Lawyer Fonfrias Law Group, LLC Student Loans Can Be Erased in Bankruptcy – But It’s Not Easy To discharge your student loan in bankruptcy, you must show that making the loan payments “will impose […]
Bankruptcy Gets Rid of the Overpayment Debt When Social Security Wants Its Money Back
Bankruptcy Gets Rid of the Overpayment Debt When Social Security Wants Its Money Back by Richard Fonfrias, J.D. Chicago’s Financial Rescue & Bankruptcy Lawyer Fonfrias Law Group, LLC Every month, the Social Security Administration (SSA) pays millions of disabled workers so it’s easy to understand how some of those people might be receiving too […]
11 Million Homeowners Seeking Mortgage Help Find Hope and Frustration in New HARP 2.0 Program
by Richard Fonfrias, J.D. Chicago’s Financial Rescue & Bankruptcy Lawyer Fonfrias Law Group, LLC If your home is underwater – meaning that you owe more than your home is worth – you probably have not been able to refinance your home, at least yet, under HARP 2.0, the government’s second attempt to help you under […]