Add to ORKGFor the millions of Americans who rely on direct deposit for receipt of their monthly federal benefits, section 207 of the Social Security Act provides a necessary protection against creditors. This federal law protects federal benefits from garnishment, attachment and other legal processes, but the courts, federal agencies, consumer groups and other stakeholders are in disagreement over its scope. This Note serves as a comprehensive review of the exemption, discussing its policy and history as well as case law that highlights the difficulty of applying its provisions to modern day banking practices. This Note concludes by advocating legislative and administrative actions to protect recipients of federal benefits payments
This Note argues that the federal courts retain power to furnish equitable relief for constitutional...
This Article examines the recent history and implementation of one of the central provisions in U.S....
The Great Recession awoke state legislators to the power of individuals’ credit reports to hinder th...
For the millions of Americans who rely on direct deposit for receipt of their monthly federal benefi...
In the span of a generation, consumer credit has reshaped the financial lives of millions of America...
Historically, the statutory treatment of wage garnishment among the states has been characterized pr...
Garnishment, a field once limited only by state or local regulation, has recently undergone a series...
The Act exempts certain individual retirement accounts from garnishment except under some conditions...
The Act permits a summons of garnishment and continuing garnishment to include the defendant\u27s so...
The question of the constitutionality of prejudgment wage garnishment had never before reached the S...
Throughout the past century’s cyclical battles for bankruptcy reform, legislators and scholars have ...
Under traditional legal analysis, branch banks are regarded as mere agencies of the banking corporat...
Since the late sixties the field of creditors\u27 remedies has undergone a series of changes brought...
This Article examines the virtually unquestioned protection of retirement assets from creditors, in ...
This Case Note summarizes the case American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Merry, 592 F.2d 118 (2d Cir...
This Note argues that the federal courts retain power to furnish equitable relief for constitutional...
This Article examines the recent history and implementation of one of the central provisions in U.S....
The Great Recession awoke state legislators to the power of individuals’ credit reports to hinder th...
For the millions of Americans who rely on direct deposit for receipt of their monthly federal benefi...
In the span of a generation, consumer credit has reshaped the financial lives of millions of America...
Historically, the statutory treatment of wage garnishment among the states has been characterized pr...
Garnishment, a field once limited only by state or local regulation, has recently undergone a series...
The Act exempts certain individual retirement accounts from garnishment except under some conditions...
The Act permits a summons of garnishment and continuing garnishment to include the defendant\u27s so...
The question of the constitutionality of prejudgment wage garnishment had never before reached the S...
Throughout the past century’s cyclical battles for bankruptcy reform, legislators and scholars have ...
Under traditional legal analysis, branch banks are regarded as mere agencies of the banking corporat...
Since the late sixties the field of creditors\u27 remedies has undergone a series of changes brought...
This Article examines the virtually unquestioned protection of retirement assets from creditors, in ...
This Case Note summarizes the case American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Merry, 592 F.2d 118 (2d Cir...
This Note argues that the federal courts retain power to furnish equitable relief for constitutional...
This Article examines the recent history and implementation of one of the central provisions in U.S....
The Great Recession awoke state legislators to the power of individuals’ credit reports to hinder th...