For most federal student loans, default status starts after 270 days—about nine months—of nonpayment. Once a loan is in ...

Student loan borrowers will face taxes on certain types of loan forgiveness in 2026, but state tax rules will make ...

The Education Department quietly announced that there are no plans to restore a tracker that had allowed borrowers to assess ...

The Trump administration plans to start garnishing wages from defaulted student loan borrowers beginning in January, with the ...

Starting in 2026, student loan forgiveness will be taxable at the federal level. This could cost the average borrower ...

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.

A new study suggests that distressed borrowers using a simpler bankruptcy process are succeeding — and that more people like ...

Starting the week of Jan. 7, the Education Department will begin sending notices about paycheck deductions to about 1,000 of ...

Millions of federal student loan borrowers are about to discover that the safety nets they counted on are being rewired in ...

About 5.5 million borrowers are currently in default. They haven't risked wage garnishment since the beginning of the pandemic, when policymakers paused the practice.

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

Students at the Studio City high school can still bring phones to school, but must use an app blocking distracting games and ...