Student Loans

Millions of people with student loans are faced with uncertainty after President Trump called to dismantle the Department of Education on Thursday.

Student loan borrowers who are unemployed have a number of relief options available to them, despite current challenges to the system.

Student debt is pretty common. But average balances tend to be higher in certain states.

An hours-long outage on StudentAid.gov, the federal website for student loans and financial aid, has underscored the risks in rapidly gutting the Department of Education.

The Department of Education distributes billions in federal money to colleges and schools and manages the federal student loan portfolio. Closing the department would mean redistributing each of those duties to another agency.

On Feb. 18, a U.S. appeals court expanded an injunction blocking a Biden-era income-driven repayment plan meant to ease the burden of student loans.

The Trump administration has taken down the applications for popular student loan repayment plans from the U.S. Department of Education’s website.

Now that the Biden administration’s SAVE plan is blocked, millions of student loan borrowers will need to find a new way to repay their debt.

If you paid interest on your student loan debt in 2024, you may be able to deduct up to $2,500 from your taxable income.

Changing administrations in Washington D.C. may be impacting current and future student loans. Here’s how.

Here’s what student loan borrowers struggling to pay their bills need to know about the restart of collections.

The latest tranche of debt forgiveness brings the total number of people benefiting from student loan cancelations to more than 5 million, the president said.

In his final days in office, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would forgive student debt for more than 150,000 borrowers.

Federal student loan borrowers impacted by the latest wildfires in California and other natural disasters have options if they’re struggling.

There’s one upside to your student loan payments: They might qualify you for a tax break.

After the Biden administration withdrew its sweeping student loan forgiveness plans, borrowers should look into the existing debt cancellation programs.

The country’s roughly 40 million federal student loan borrowers should brace for change when President Joe Biden exits office toward the end of the month.

The Department of Education announced it was reopening two student loan repayment plans, leaving borrowers with more choices for ways to tackle their debt.

The Biden administration has withdrawn its two major plans to deliver student loan forgiveness to millions of Americans. Here’s what borrowers should know.

President Biden announced this morning that his administration has cancelled the student debt for about 55,000 borrowers.