I took out a private loan to pay for college in 2006 and now the people are threatening to garnish my wages and take private collections. The loan was 10,000 and now they are saying I owe almost 19,000 I'm shocked and worried. I have two kids and I'm trying to provide for them. I would even try and get on a payment plan but they want me to pay almost 19,000 like yesturday. Who can afford that? Not me....Are they able to go into my account and get any monies that may be in there or take my car from me ? I wish I would have never had to do that.