Trump's Department of Education said it plans to remove the partial financial hardship requirement to enroll in income-based repayment in December.

In late April 2025, the House Education and Workforce Committee, led by Republican lawmakers, unveiled a comprehensive student loan reform proposal with a significant new income-driven repayment ...

The Republican-led "One Big Beautiful Bill" was signed into law by President Donald Trump last week, which will result in major changes to student loans, including fewer repayment options, caps on ...

The millions of Americans with student loans, who have already experienced whiplash in federal policy since the pandemic, must again brace for change. The "big, beautiful bill" that President Trump ...

Congressional Republicans are quietly working toward one of the most consequential overhauls in the history of the federal student loan program – one that would affect the lives of millions of ...

Key Points ・Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) remains one of the most misunderstood federal student loan programs, and ...

House Republicans’ newly proposed Repayment Assistance Plan, part of their sweeping 2025 student loan reform bill known as the Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan, aims to simplify federal ...

More than 43 million Americans carry student loan debt, and recent grads aren't the only ones feeling the pinch. Data show that many borrowers are in their 40s, 50s, and even 60s, still paying off ...

As ongoing lawsuits still block the Saving for a Valuable Education (SAVE), borrowers who have been in forbearance for months are fleeing the repayment plan to continue their progress toward loan ...

WASHINGTON – Since the COVID-19 pandemic, federal student loan borrowers have been mostly protected from the harshest consequences of not paying back their loans. That's about to change, and quickly.

Massive delays and uncertainty about where certain payment plans stand are causing anxiety for some student loan borrowers. And early Thursday morning, the U.S. House voted to repeal several student ...

Republicans on the House education committee publicly unveiled their plan Tuesday to remake the federal student loan system while also cutting more than $330 billion in federal spending to help offset ...