Payments made during forbearance or deferment, including the almost two-year pause on the Saving on a Valuable Education plan ...

Thousands of borrowers are facing extremely long wait times for a critical student loan forgiveness program. And processing ...

The Education Department quietly announced that a critical tool allowing borrowers to track their progress toward student ...

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 ...

For millions of borrowers, finally seeing a student loan balance wiped away is supposed to mark the end of a long financial slog. Instead, many are about to discover that the year their debt ...

Certain types of student loan forgiveness is taxable again after a law expired in 2025 that shielded borrowers. The taxation change applies to the U.S. Department of Education's income-driven ...

Student loan borrowers spent years hearing that relief was finally on the way, only to discover that the clean slate they were promised may come with a surprise bill from the Internal Revenue Service.

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Obtaining student loan forgiveness can feel like pure relief — but there may be some fine print to that forgiveness. As of Jan. 1, 2026, following the expiration of a Biden-era provision that made ...

More than 800,000 federal student loan holders remain stuck in a backlog of applications for an affordable repayment plan or debt forgiveness, a new court filing shows. The challenges accessing income ...