Bankruptcy Finally Ends Father’s 4-Year Struggle To Repay Dead Son’s Student Loan

Back in June, we told you about the California man who had spent years trying to sort out his late son’s student loans, only to keep running into dead ends and and roadblocks. Now, after four years of struggling to figure out how much is owed and to whom, he’s finally getting some relief.
ProPublica provides an update on the father, who earns around $21,000 a year in his job as a gardener.

When his son died only a few months after graduating college in 2008, the small amount of federal aid he’d received was discharged. But since the dad had cosigned on the remaining private loans, he was on the hook if the private lenders opted to keep the debt alive, which they did.

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