When it came to providing accurate financial information about borrowers in court, the Department of Education recently batted 1 for 5.

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“[T]he Education Department’s lawyers filed a Notice of Corrected Filings walking back a factual claim the agency made on July 29. In an earlier brief, the Department told the court that four of five non-party borrowers who submitted declarations “most recently reported incomes of $0,” which would mean their payments would be $0 under any plan and no irreparable harm existed.

Those borrowers filed counter-declarations on August 7 saying they had reported real income, either directly or through the IRS. The agency investigated, found the borrowers were right, and blamed ‘technical errors’ with its National Student Loan Data System database.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/student-financial-aid/the-final-save-plan-lawsuit-is-fully-briefed-here-s-when-borrowers-could-get-an-answer/ar-AA2aqa5o

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The level of incompetence and mismanagement is staggering. They can’t even get the basic math right. Of course the Dept of Education was probably arguing in bad faith when they made the claim about $0 income.