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  • 2015-03-24 (xsd:date)
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  • Children of Congress Members Don’t Pay Back Student Loans-Fiction!... (en)
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  • Children of Congress Members Don’t Pay Back Student Loans-Fiction! Children of Congress Members Don’t Pay Back Student Loans- Fiction! 35 Governors Have Sued the Federal Government to Create 28th Amendment- Fiction! Summary of eRumor: A chain email says that children of members of Congress and their staffers have their student loans forgiven. The email also says that 35 governors have sued for a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would limit federal power. The Truth: Both of these claims are false. There is a Student Loan Repayment Program in place to help attract and retain federal employees, but it does not extend to family members. Elected officials, uniform service members and other government employees are eligible under the law . Federal employees can have up to $10,000 in federally insured student loans repaid each year, and up to $60,000 repaid over their career, the Office of Personnel Management reports . And the federal government does not forgive these loans, as the eRumor claims. The loans are repaid. That’s important because it means federal employees have to pay taxes on loan payments just like the rest of their salaries. In 2013, $52.9 million in student loan repayments were made for 7,314 federal employees, the Office of Personnel and Management reports . The email’s claim that 35 governors had sued the U.S. government for a 28th amendment is also false. The email says that the proposed 28th amendment would state: Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators, Representatives of Congress; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States... That same language was used in an eRumor that TruthorFiction.com found to be false in 2013. Click here for that story. Both versions of the eRumor said that 35 governors had signed onto a petition for a constitutional convention to create the 28th amendment, but that’s not true. At last count, three states had tried to force a constitutional convention. Resolutions in Kansas, Georgia and Indiana sought to balance state and federal power, the Huffington Post reports . And under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, 34 states have to pass a resolution on the same subject to force a constitutional convention — not 38 states, as the eRumor claims. Posted in Education , Government , Politics (en)
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