The New York Fed warns some people's credit scores could drop as much as 150 points.

Student loans are the one corner of consumer finance where your credit score doesn’t always dictate your ability to borrow, especially if you take out federal student loans. Except for Direct PLUS ...

Gen Z has seen its credit scores drop more than any other generation over the past year, largely because of student loan debt, according to a new report out this week. The total national average ...

A sudden 100-point drop in a credit score causes all sorts of problems. It can hit someone’s ability to take out an auto loan, apply for a credit card or rent an apartment. This is a real problem ...

Roughly a third of federal student loan borrowers are behind on their payments, resulting in massive hits to their credit scores. About 29% of borrowers — or 5.4 million people — were delinquent on ...

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Borrowers could face large drops in credit scores once delinquencies appear on credit reports for the first half of 2025, ...