Department of Education

On July 1, multiple provisions of the recent One Big Beautiful Bill Act take effect. The Biden-era SAVE income-driven repayment plan will end; the Education Departme...

Beginning July 1, new federal student loan rules will take effect that restructure repayment options, change eligibility for some income-driven repayment (IDR) plans...

The Trump administration announced an interagency agreement shifting federal student lending operations from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to the Treasury De...

The PBS NewsHour article reports that about 9.5 million people — roughly one in five federal student loan borrowers — are currently in default, defined as being more...

The CBS News article reports that defaults on student loans in the United States have surged and reached record levels after the expiration of a COVID-era payments p...

The Trump administration announced plans to move two Education Department offices to other federal agencies: the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Servi...

Major federal student loan rule changes take effect July 1, 2026, under the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act. New borrowing limits: Parent PLUS loans are capped at $2...

The article warns that major federal student loan changes take effect on July 1 under a recent law (referred to in the piece as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act). Key ...

Beginning July 1, federal limits on graduate student borrowing from federal student loan programs take effect under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed last year. ...

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon told Fox News that the Education Freedom Tax Credit (also called the federal tax-credit scholarship program) will allow parent...

Beginning this week federal student loan rules created under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act take effect. The Department of Education is phasing out the SAVE repaymen...

Declassified documents and an Office of Special Counsel (OSC) letter say staff in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) continued to pursu...