Key Points ・Department of Education is increasing its direct monitoring of student loan servicers ・More accountability on ...

The members are among the nearly 70 million Americans who receive monthly payments from Social Security ... if some kind of agreement to raise the debt ceiling is a foregone conclusion.

Tax refunds would be put on hold, and Social Security checks would likely be ... rates would shoot up if the debt ceiling isn’t raised and there is no cash available to pay the government ...