Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of Education is working with a skeleton staff during the government shutdown, but the agency does have a ...

Student loan forgiveness was about to peter out. But a brand new legal development could lead to the opposite outcome – an acceleration in discharges for student loans.

Student loan borrowers filed a forceful response as the Education Department took steps to delay discharging student loans ...

Under the Trump administration, hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers remain stuck in a backlog of applications for an affordable repayment plan or debt forgiveness, a new court filing shows ...

Trump officials rejected 327,955 income-driven repayment plan requests from student loan borrowers in August, according to a December court filing. Millions of student loan holders rely on IDR plans ...

The Trump administration is accelerating its plan to dismantle the U.S. Education Department, shifting billions of dollars in federal school grants to other agencies — but leaving the nation’s $1.6 ...

The Trump administration has agreed to resume student loan forgiveness for more than 2.5 million borrowers — a move that could inject billions of dollars back into the consumer economy just as the ...

The U.S. Department of Education is working with a skeleton staff during the government shutdown, but the agency does have a contingency plan in place and most core operations will continue, officials ...

Federal student loans will continue to accrue interest during shutdown. FAFSA opened on Sept. 24 and applications are still being processed. Pell Grants and federal student loans will continue to be ...