What is the statute of limitations on a guaranteed student loan from 1983?

Quoting from a footnote to the Fair Credit Reporting Act...(located in Subsection 605, regarding statute of limitations) "The reporting periords have been lengthened for certain adverse information pertaining to U.S. Government insured or guaranteed student loans, or pertaining to national direct student loans. See sections 430A(f) and 463(c)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, 20 USC 1080a(f) and 20 USC 1087CC(c)(3), respectively." The FCRA does says that, in general, statute of limitations is 7 years or "until the governing statute of limitations has expired, WHICHEVER IS THE LONGER PERIOD." For federally guaranteed student loans, that governing statutue is much longer than the typical 7 years. There is no statute of limitations on old student loans but they can be discharged under a few circumstances - death, total and permanent disability, military service, teaching, and bankruptcy - ONLY if you can successfully prove that repayment of the debt would cause "undue hardship" as defined by case law in your jurisdiction AND the first payment of the loan was due over 7 years ago. See website: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/DCS/loan.cancellation.discharge.html I found this information because I, too, have a loan from the 1980s. I have not worked since 1989 because I got fibromyalgia and PTSD. I am now getting SSI and they keep harassing me and my neighbors. The new bankruptcy laws (Fall 2005) may change this information.