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Old 04-19-2008, 09:30 PM     #1
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Confused garnishment on fixed income

my husband an I are on ss disability and he has veterans disability. If we walk away from our home can the bank garnish ourdisability wages?
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Normally they cannot take disability.
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Confused Re: garnishment on fixed income

does that mean they can still garnish the ss income?
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Old 05-05-2008, 02:35 PM     #4
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Social Security benefits are generally protected against garnishments. Social Security, along with just about every other government benefit, is “exempt” from collection. That means nobody can get at it to pay a debt.

Nobody, that is, except Uncle Sam himself, by his men at the U.S. Treasury.
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