STUDENT AID v. HEALTH & ENV. CONTROL

No. 3468.

349 S.C. 162 (2002)

561 S.E.2d 650

UNITED STUDENT AID FUNDS, INC., Appellant, v. The SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, an Agency of the State of South Carolina; Grady L. Patterson, in his official capacity as Treasurer for the State of South Carolina; and James A. Lander, in his official capacity as Comptroller General for the State of South Carolina, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided March 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lil Ann Gray and Charles F. Cooper, II, both of Cooper, Coffas, Moore & Gray, of Columbia, for appellant.

Elizabeth F. Potter, Staff Counsel of South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control; and Attorney General Charles M. Condon and Assistant Deputy Attorney General J. Emory Smith, Jr., all of Columbia, for respondents.


HUFF, J.

United Student Aid Funds, Inc. (USA Funds) brought this action seeking an order directing the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, the State Treasurer, and the Comptroller General (collectively, DHEC) to garnish the wages of a DHEC employee.1 The garnishment was to collect on the defaulting employee's student loan. USA Funds sought the order pursuant to the wage garnishment provision in 20 U.S.C.A. &...

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