It has been more than five years since referrals for collections regarding student loans in default were paused as a form of temporary financial relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden’s ...

Millions of student loan borrowers could face a wake-up call Monday as the Department of Education resumes collecting on school loans. The restart of collections comes as data from a recent analysis ...

The resumption comes as the Supreme Court deliberates student debt forgiveness. Jamilla Vanbuckley would like to buy a home one day. A correctional counselor in New York City, Vanbuckley has been ...

Student loan borrowers facing wage garnishment can explore multiple options to halt the process and take their debts out of ...

Kamala Harris has backed several key student-loan forgiveness efforts during her career.

"They’re using every penny to pay off that debt." By his account, Elie Kirkland shouldn't have been at Morehouse College's commencement last year, when billionaire Robert Smith pledged to the class of ...

Students studying in a library. Reporter The U.S. Department of Education announced on April 21 that the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) will restart its student debt collections on May 5. The ...

WASHINGTON – Since the COVID-19 pandemic, federal student loan borrowers have been mostly protected from the harshest consequences of not paying back their loans. That's about to change, and quickly.

The Supreme Court said Monday that a case over a Biden-era student loan forgiveness rule will resume—after the Trump administration briefly put the litigation on hold—which could affect thousands of ...

Millions of Americans who fell behind on federal student loans during the pandemic-era pause are about to feel the ...

Student loan borrowers who haven't paid their debt now face seeing their wages garnished, Social Security benefits reduced, and more as debt collection resumes in 2025. A five-year break that began as ...

On Dec. 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education said it will begin administrative wage garnishment for borrowers with ...