It’s a new year for student loans, and big changes are happening that will impact millions of borrowers across the country.

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

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

Millions of borrowers who are behind can expect the government to tighten the options in 2026. Experts say take action now to ...

Some student loan borrowers who get their debt canceled in 2026 may be hit with a tax bill now that a law protecting the ...

The good news is that some states will still pay off student loans if you decide to move there. However, most states and the ...

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 ...

The federal Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, will be the newest student loan repayment plan. President Donald Trump’s “big, ...

Student-loan borrowers will begin to see the effects of Trump's changes to repayment and borrowing in July 2026.

From paused student-loan repayment plans to new debt relief limits, 2026 brought critical changes to borrowers. There's a lot ...

A look ahead at the federal policies taking effect in 2026 that will shape how students and families pay for college.

The U.S. Department of Education plans to end a student loan debt forgiveness program used by millions of Americans. The feds said Dec. 9 that they had reached a proposed court settlement to kill the ...