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 ...

Repayment plans and loan limits are set to change, while the Education Department remains in flux. “It will be a really ...

Recent federal data reveals the current state of student loan relief processing and the administrative hurdles facing ...

Millions of student loan borrowers severely delinquent in their payments will see wage garnishments hit their paychecks in ...

The Trump administration says wage garnishment for defaulted federal student loans will begin in January, ending a ...

The Education Department signaled earlier this year that it would move to resume wage garnishment, among other forms of involuntary collection, for those in default.

Sixty-two percent of student borrowers are not current on their loans — and it may be because they don’t know they’re supposed to be paying them, a new study shows. The analysis by the ...

Student loans continue to trouble millions of Americans, with a total of $1.77 trillion already owed. This crisis has been a major political issue for a while, especially after former President Biden ...

On May 5, 2025, the Trump administration formally ended the federal government’s five-year suspension of student loan collections, reinstating aggressive recovery procedures on defaulted loans. This ...

Americans owe more than $1 trillion in student loan debt. Here are some of their stories, from Consumer Reports' special ...

(Special to The Root) — The start of the 2012-2013 academic year brought a nasty surprise for thousands of parents of low-income college students. They had kept their sons and daughters in school ...

Students are already taking out mortgage-sized loans for college. The financial jiu-jitsu of pairing bitcoin with student loans can fix the student debt crisis. Student loans continue to trouble ...