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Here’s what borrowers need to know about the U.S. Department of Education’s plans to overhaul the student loan system.

Higher-education expert Mark Kantrowitz argues federal student loans could be forgiven via regulatory changes set by the executive branch.

The U.S. Department of Education says it will hold the owners of certain colleges that closed or defrauded students accountable for taxpayer losses.

“Serious delinquency rates for student debt could snap back from historic lows,” wrote Lowell Ricketts of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

After two years of federal student loan payment suspensions, the government expects it will not be easy to get millions of borrowers back into repayment.

Nearly 16,000 student loan borrowers who attended for-profit schools will get their debts cleared, the U.S. Department of Education announced.

The federal government can seize certain payments to satisfy delinquent debts. The U.S. Department of Education suspended the practice until after Nov. 1.

Most borrowers, 62%, say student loan debt negatively affected their mental health, according to the Invest in You Student Loan Survey conducted by Momentive.

Navient, a major student loan servicing company, has settled allegations of abusive lending practices for $1.85 billion

The continued pause of federal student loan debt and interest has led to some confusion and an uptick in scams. How to protect yourself from falling victim.

Many borrowers are finally due to get their student loans excused under the public service loan forgiveness program, after reforms by the Biden administration.

62% of voters support forgiving at least some student loan debt, according to a poll.

“41 million borrowers have benefitted from the extended student loan payment pause, but it expires February 1.”

In addition to seeing their payments restart after an almost two-year hiatus, federal student loan borrowers could soon see a number of other major changes.

The U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights enforcement arm is investigating allegations of racial and gender discrimination at the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, the school district confirmed Wednesday.

Student debt in the U.S. has ballooned to over $1.7 trillion since Congress first allowed college students to borrow from the government in 1958.

Google offers career certificates in four fields: information technology, data analytics, project management and user experience design.

On Tuesday, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona told The Atlantic student loan forgiveness conversations are continuing.

After nearly two years of pausing student loan bills, the U.S. Department of Education is trying to figure out how to start collecting the payments again.

Nearly 23% of the country’s 42.9 million total borrowers will have their loans changed hands.