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 clock is ticking for President Donald Trump's administration to work through a student-loan forgiveness backlog. Since Trump took office, his Department of Education has been processing a slew of ...

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

When I started at the Department of Education in the 1990s, student loans were a popular middle-class benefit. College affordability or student loan debt were rarely front-page news. Our dingy offices ...

WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 5: Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at an impromptu press conference in Washington DC on November 5, 2025. Sanders and several other Democratic senators ...

After months of uncertainty, some federal student loan borrowers will soon have their debt canceled. But there’s a hook: You must be enrolled in a very specific program and have made sufficient ...

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

Student-debt-cancellation plans could increase homeownership but also eventually lead to a rise in interest rates.

This means, for example, that if Dave's dad had $150,000 in a bank account when he passed away, the creditors could go after ...

I just keep hoping that it will just magically go away or I’ll just die”: A growing feature of the nation’s $1.7 trillion ...

With household debt on the rise, middle-class Americans are focusing on paying down mortgage, credit card and student loan debt — often at the expense of saving for retirement or creating an emergency ...

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