Major new updates announced by the Education Department this month could impact millions of Americans with federal student ...

Preston Cooper at AEI recently published an analysis of the latest federal student loan data, and the results were sobering: 5.5 million borrowers in default, another 3.7 million more than 270 days ...

Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months. “It’s cruel and hostile to ...

The best thing to do when wages are being garnished is to try to lower your expenses and possibly explore consolidation ...

You should always max out undergraduate federal student loans — issued by the U.S. Department of Education — before turning ...

When you have a large student loan balance, you may struggle to keep up with monthly payments or to qualify for other types of credit. This can be especially true for private student loan borrowers ...

The Education Department announced a long-delayed expansion of a key repayment plan for student loans this week, paving the ...

The Department of Education is placing a $65,000 cap on the Parent PLUS program in July, limiting the amount of student loans parents can take on.

As student loan payments resume in 2026 after years of pauses and temporary relief measures, many borrowers may find themselves facing a familiar anxiety: what happens if you can't ...

Major changes are coming for millions of Americans who borrowed money for higher education and now find themselves with student loan debt.

The student loan system feels increasingly unstable and that uncertainty is driving more people to look for relief.

A spokesperson for the federal Department of Education said the agency will send the first notices to defaulted borrowers in ...