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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Farrington writes about higher education and student loans. Our nation's student debt crisis is a multi-faceted issue with ...

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 ...

Repayment plans and loan limits are set to change, while the Education Department remains in flux. “It will be a really ...

A new bipartisan proposal in Congress aims to slash interest rates on federal student loans to just 2%, a dramatic drop from the 6% to 9% rates that most borrowers have today. The bill — officially ...

Andrea Murzello has a doctorate in pharmacy and a stable job at a nonprofit. But she says she can't afford to grow her family - not under the Trump administration's latest student loan policy shift.

WASHINGTON — As a federal government shutdown begins Oct. 1, millions of student loan borrowers may be wondering how the funding lapse could affect their payments and services. The short answer: Keep ...

Trump's Department of Education completed its update to income-based repayment plans, expanding access to borrowers with ...

Trump officials rejected 327,955 income-driven repayment plan requests from student loan borrowers, according to a recent ...