Your link appears to be about bachelor degree recipients. > If they’re that poor they would get money through a straight “give poor people money scheme.” That

Your link appears to be about bachelor degree recipients. > If they’re that poor they would get money through a straight “give poor people money scheme.” That then goes to paying off their debt. https://www.tateesq.com/learn/can-ssi-be-garnished-for-student-loans https://www.tateesq.com/learn/can-ssi-be-garnished-for-stude... "Student loans can’t stop you from getting Medicare. But defaulting on federal student debt can lead to your Social Security retirement and disability benefits being garnished." > Any sort of prioritizing or preference on college participation is regressive. For students who had federal loans for predatory schools an argument is that the government (through accreditation) was responsible for validating the school prior to giving loans to attend the school. The fact that it fell down on this job, leading to harm for the loan recipients (both money, and time, only one of which can be compensated), justifies eliminating the debt. Otherwise you can make the argument that the money from any compensatory judgement should go to the poorest first, and not the person seeking compensation (which would have a regressive effect of wronged parties not seeking to hold the people committing the wrong accountable - which is some of the force behind holding entities such as predatory schools accountable).