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 borrowers billions of dollars in forgiveness.

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 ...

A new study suggests that distressed borrowers using a simpler bankruptcy process are succeeding — and that more people like ...

The Education Department quietly announced that there are no plans to restore a tracker that had allowed borrowers to assess ...

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

The Department of Education will soon begin garnishing wages for defaulted federal student loans. Borrowers currently in ...

The student loan system feels increasingly unstable and that uncertainty is driving more people to look for relief.

A recent update from the Department of Education said that just 170 student-loan borrowers received income-driven repayment ...

The Trump administration plans to start garnishing wages from defaulted student loan borrowers beginning in January, with the ...

Our top-rated private student loan lenders are Ascent and College Ave. Paying for college can feel challenging, especially when you consider that the annual cost of room, board and tuition to attend ...

For the fall school term, you should apply for private student loans between May and July. Give yourself about two months for processing ahead of tuition payment deadlines, which are typically in ...