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Re:Student Debt Payback Far Worse Than Believed by antisthenes on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:25PM (#13439629)
Do you have a source for that? A 120% recovery on defaulted loans seems insane.
Re:Student Debt Payback Far Worse Than Believed by projektfu on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:45AM (#13463487)
I'm not sure what year I read that, or what article it was in, but after some cursory searching, in 2014, the recovery rate was 103-111%. Recovery rates are much higher in student loans because they cannot be discharged. So 120% is certainly not out of the question some years.

https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget14/justifica...

In FY 2016: 100-112% https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget16/justifica...