The Education Department has paused its efforts to seize wages and tax refunds from borrowers in default on their student ...

WASHINGTON — Before President Donald Trump's administration started dismantling the Education Department, the agency served ...

At the current rate of processing, some borrowers with student loans eligible for loan forgiveness could be waiting many ...

The Education Department announced new limitations on student loan forgiveness this week, potentially delaying the discharges ...

More than 800,000 federal student loan holders remain stuck in a backlog of applications for an affordable repayment plan or ...

After hundreds of civil rights employees were placed on administrative leave last year, the U.S. Department of Education called staff back to its Office of Civil Rights amid a massive backlog of ...

The Saving for a Valuable Education plan is ending and the borrowers on it will have to move to another repayment plan and resume payments. These borrowers' payments are likely to be higher compared ...

While some routes to loan discharges have been blocked or delayed in 2025, the Department of Education has still granted borrowers billions of dollars in forgiveness.

Millions of Americans receiving Social Security benefits faced delays because of widespread backlogs in 2025, according to a new report from The Washington Post. Nearly 75 million Americans rely on ...

Borrowers have spent much of 2025 trying to keep up with dizzying changes to the federal student loan system. The Trump administration and Congress are in the process of overhauling everything from ...

Starting the week of Jan. 7, the Education Department will begin sending notices about paycheck deductions to about 1,000 of five million borrowers in default. By Emmett Lindner The Trump ...

A major overhaul of the federal student loan repayment system is coming in 2026. The changes stem from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which was signed into law in July.