delinquent
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By law, federal agencies are able to order a nonfederal employer to withhold up to 15% of an employee’s income to pay a delinquent debt, according to the U.S.
From Barron's
“You don’t have to pay extra, but you can’t have anything be delinquent,” if you want your score to improve, Raneri said.
From MarketWatch
More than five million federal student loan borrowers are seriously delinquent on their loans and over three million haven’t made a payment in more than 270 days, according to Education Department data.
“We have to work for these delinquents. And no one in the government helps us.”
From Los Angeles Times
Those mortgages, even if they weren’t delinquent, became worth a fraction of their original value, causing associations’ capital to vanish almost overnight.
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