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Re:Student Debt Payback Far Worse Than Believed by lunchladydoris on Thursday January 19, 2017 @03:38AM (#13434135)
"A spokeswoman for the Education Department said that the problem resulted from a technical programming error."

I would love to get the story behind this. The cynic in me wants to say it was an Excel screw-up.

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Re:Student Debt Payback Far Worse Than Believed by charlieflowers on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:03AM (#13434250)
Probably an Access database that was used waaay beyond when it should have been put out to pasture.
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