Student Debt

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 CBS News article states that debt forgiveness is not available to every borrower and summarizes which borrowers are most likely to qualify for debt forgiveness i...

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...

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. ...

CBS News reports that multiple federal student loan rule changes will take effect on July 1. The changes may alter which repayment plans are available, who is eligib...

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...

The U.S. Department of Education announced that, beginning July 1, it will temporarily increase the automatic-payment (auto-pay) interest-rate discount on federal st...