Sweeping student loan forgiveness changes for federal student loans are going into effect this year, and millions of borrower ...

Today, the White House announced an indefinite pause of the collection of defaulted federal student loan debt, including through the Treasury Offset program, which applies any tax refunds towar ...

CRFB President Maya MacGuineas called the decision “beyond ridiculous,” coming six years removed from the Covid pandemic that first put a stop to student-debt collections.

After being paused for 7.6 million borrowers under President Biden’s SAVE plan (Saving on A Valuable Education), the Trump ...

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.

President Joe Biden is taking a "hard look" at canceling some federal student loan debt, but even a broad forgiveness plan may leave out some of the 43 million borrowers. Biden has indicated that if ...

The Trump administration has put forward a proposal that could potentially bring millions of borrowers back into repayment from the Biden-era payment pause. The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday ...

On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden issued his support for $10,000 of undergraduate or graduate student debt relief for every year of national or community service, up to five years and $50,000 ...

The Biden administration has forgiven a record amount of federal student debt. But in about two months, President-elect Donald Trump, a vocal critic of student loan forgiveness polices, will enter the ...