[blindlaw] SSI payments, Purpose of This List

[Ford, Tim (CDPH-OLS)]

Hi Group,

While I genuinely understand the importance of this discussion, all but
a few tiny pieces of the posts on this thread have been unrelated to the
legal focus of this list.  Yes, social policy is often intertwined with
law as it needs to be, but there are some two dozen notes just in the
past 24 hours on this thread, with precious little new being mentioned
on the legal front.  

There was some very useful specifics about which kinds of payments can
or cannot be garnished, and on federal law provisions for getting
student loans cancelled under certain circumstances.  However, those two
legal aspects were almost totally lost in all the volume of discussion
on other aspects of this issue.

I apologize for even mentioning all this, but the reality is that if
notes on a list become fairly wide off the mark of the intended purpose
of the list, then people find it hard to come up with the time to read
through all the long strings looking for something they can apply to
their legal practice or experience.  

Sincerely,
Tim Ford