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Re:Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan ... by zaroth on Friday April 05, 2019 @08:28PM (#19588346)
As it turns out, random government agencies can’t just data mine your tax returns, bank accounts, and payment history from a third party servicer.

To build the infrastructure to do this would cost the government probably $100 billion. See healthcare.gov for an example where they tried to do something similar.

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Re:Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan ... by addicted on Saturday April 06, 2019 @08:36AM (#19590436)
Healthcare.gov was insanely successful after the initial poor launch (the initial launch was poor only because the Supreme Court struck down certain aspects of the law, which meant that the entire scope of healthcare.gov changed overnight).
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Re:Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan ... by onethought on Friday April 05, 2019 @11:56PM (#19589119)
... Look outside the US. This is how a lot of social programs work. Especially if it were for a Public Servant/Employee then the records are even easier to access.

Perhaps the US’s relative state independence doesn’t help it here.

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