{"id":734241,"date":"2021-09-09T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734241"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T17:36:12","slug":"famously-progressive-new-york-sues-college-students-for-unpaid-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/famously-progressive-new-york-sues-college-students-for-unpaid-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Famously Progressive New York Sues College Students For Unpaid Tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffamously-progressive-new-york-sues-college-students-for-unpaid-tuition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734241&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1337314984.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>New York, a famously progressive state whose leaders constantly claim student debt should be wiped out and\/or that college should be free, sues students who haven\u2019t paid tuition debt and makes it almost impossible for them to defend themselves.<\/p>\n<p>On his way out the door, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\/2021\/07\/28\/governor-cuomo-announces-sweeping-125-million-debt-relief-program-for-at-least-50000-students\/\">announced<\/a> a $125 million debt relief program that would affect at least 50,000 students at New York\u2019s state-run universities. Yet a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/03\/nyregion\/suny-student-loans-lawsuit-albany.html\">report<\/a> from The New York Times shows that while New York\u2019s leaders publicly tout debt forgiveness and advocate for free tuition, behind the scenes, the state routinely sues students who don\u2019t pay. Not only that, but the state uses \u201ca quirk in the law\u201d to ensure that students must appear before a judge in Albany to defend themselves, a nearly impossible task for many of the state\u2019s in-debt students who are struggling to get by.<\/p>\n<p>The Times told the story of Amanda Belony, who registered for classes but withdrew before they started due to previous health issues and the fact that she could not afford to live in Plattsburgh, New York to graduate. She missed the withdrawal deadline and was charged for classes she didn\u2019t attend, amounting to $3,705. Belony was sued and told she must appear in court at New York\u2019s Supreme Court in Albany, which was a four-hour bus trip from where she lived with her mother. Belony at the time was working 10-hour days and barely earning enough to pay her bills and help her mother with rent. She feared she could not afford to defend herself and travel to Albany, and that she might lose her job trying to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Belony is one of close to 16,000 SUNY students taken to court by the state since 2013. Under a little-known state&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suny.edu\/sunypp\/documents.cfm?doc_id=390\">regulation<\/a>, New York\u2019s attorney general is allowed to sue students if a state public university claims they owe tuition \u2014 or overdue library fines or unpaid parking tickets,\u201d the Times reported. \u201cUnlike almost all regulations governing the collection of debt, a quirk in the law allows the attorney general\u2019s office to file suit in these cases exclusively in State Supreme Court in Albany, regardless of where the student lives or attended college. If a student from SUNY Buffalo, for example, which is 300 miles from Albany, doesn\u2019t show up in court, a judge will rule in the state\u2019s favor and declare the student in default. The student\u2019s wages could be garnished or tax refund withheld.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Multiple attorneys told the Times that most of the cases end up finding the student in default because they can\u2019t travel to Albany to defend themselves. As the Times noted, New York State Attorney Letitia James has spoken out about tuition debt even as her office continues to target students the way it does. When asked about the discrepancy, she told the Times she has \u201ca legal obligation to collect student debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t tell the outlet why her office filed so many lawsuits, but said it was working to change how student debt is collected. Just before the Times\u2019 story was published, she sent a letter to state legislators asking for the system to be changed.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">&nbsp;<em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, a famously progressive state whose leaders constantly claim student debt should be wiped out and\/or that college should be free, sues students who haven\u2019t paid tuition debt and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}