The Education Department has taken steps in recent weeks that may make harder for borrowers to reach their goal of discharging their student loans.

Advocacy groups are raising alarms over the Education Department’s recent rollback of PSLF credit, warning It could result in the reinstatement of forgiven student loans.

Following a confusing rollout of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s loan changes, some students couldn’t pay bills over summer, ...

In an op-ed Monday, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon explained the Education Department's decision to resume "involuntary collections" of federal student loans that are in default. Within weeks, ...

Unlike traditional consumer debt, education loans evaluate a candidate's future earning capacity rather than just existing income.

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A large number of student loan borrowers have not made payments on their loans since fall 2024, when the post-pandemic relief period for past-due borrowers officially ended, according to the ...

Shifting responsibility for student loans to the Treasury Department makes sense for students and taxpayers, while making it easier to shut down the Education Department. The Department of the ...

Beginning next month, the Education Department will resume withholding money from tax refunds and Social Security benefits to pay down the debt of people in default on their student loans, ending a ...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced on Thursday a historic partnership to offload the Department of Education's nearly $1.7 trillion student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department. The move ...